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Enrollment
475
Elementary
DISTRICT 423 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HARLINGEN CISD·NCES 482253006115
Long Elementary School
2601 N 7TH, HARLINGEN, TX 78550 · (956) 427-3140 · Cameron County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL475 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.6:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
73%
349 students
DISTRICT 80% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 45 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 51 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 80 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 72 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 69 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 87 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (51) is 41% smaller than its 5th grade class (87).
Student demographics
8%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 10% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
55.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +20.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
49.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +14.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 20 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 14 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 29.0% | 26.0% | 25.0% | 20.0% |
| Mathematics | 19.0% | 30.0% | 22.0% | 29.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 55.0% | 49.0% |
| 2024-25 | 56.0% | 48.0% |
| 2023-24 | 44.0% | 41.0% |
| 2022-23 | 32.0% | 42.0% |
| 2021-22 | 46.0% | 46.0% |
| 2020-21 | 35.0% | 35.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
41.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.3%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Long Elementary School
Long Elementary School's state test result (41.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long Elementary School this school | 475 | 73.5% | 41.8% |
| Tierra Del Sol Elementary School EL PASO | 502 | 74.7% | 57.5% |
| Villareal Elementary School OLMITO | 444 | 74.3% | 53.0% |
| Raul Garza Jr Steam Academy SAN BENITO | 437 | 75.3% | 47.3% |
| Benito Martinez Elementary School EL PASO | 470 | 76.2% | 46.3% |
| Cavazos Elementary School MCALLEN | 479 | 76.6% | 51.2% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Long Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Cameron County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.8% | #2,354 of 4,401 | #58 of 93 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #1,853 of 4,466 ▼ 44 | #64 of 93 ▼ 14 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #1,938 of 4,466 ▼ 135 | #50 of 93 ▼ 12 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +15.0pp | #874 of 3,998 | #20 of 93 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 475 | #2,771 of 4,938 | #46 of 95 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.1:1 | #1,587 of 4,622 | #11 of 93 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 8.1% | #4,182 of 4,628 | #27 of 93 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 73.5% | #2,359 of 4,789 | #83 of 94 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -27.3% | #646 of 2,838 | #18 of 64 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
475
-107 (-18%) vs 2020
-41% since 1990-91, when it was 802
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
was 15.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 475 | 33.8 | 14.1:1 | 73% (349) |
| 2023-24 | 513 | 34.2 | 15.0:1 | 83% (426) |
| 2022-23 | 548 | 34 | 16.1:1 | 84% (460) |
| 2020-21 | 582 | 38 | 15.3:1 | 82% (476) |
| 2017-18 | 653 | 39.9 | 16.4:1 | 77% (506) |
| 2015-16 | 689 | 43 | 16.0:1 | 75% (520) |
| 2010-11 | 756 | 42 | 18.0:1 | 79% (599) |
| 2000-01 | 789 | 43 | 18.4:1 | 67% (528) |
| 1990-91 | 802 | 32 | 25.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Long Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 27% (653 to 475); teachers down 15% (39.9 to 33.8).
About Long Elementary School
Long Elementary School is the name of a medium-sized elementary school in HARLINGEN, Texas. School enrollment was 475 students in 2024-25, in pre-K through 5.
HARLINGEN CISD has 31 schools and 17,506 students, and Long Elementary School is one of those schools.
About 96% of the student body at Long Elementary School is Hispanic. Smaller groups are 3% White. The school's diversity index is 8%, meaning two students picked at random have an 8% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Long Elementary School employs 33.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 14.1:1. This ratio sits 1.0 below the 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 73% in 2024-25. That is 11 points below the 84% average for public schools in Cameron County.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Long Elementary School, the prediction is 42.3% and the result is 41.8%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Cameron County show that the median household income is $52,601, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 21% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Long Elementary School is one of 187 public schools in the county.
Of nearby public schools, Hcisd Early Childhood Academy is the closest, at about 0.2 miles. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Long Elementary School. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Long Elementary School is 4th of 7 on proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Long Elementary School is coded City: Small, for schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment is down 18% from 2020-21, when Long Elementary School had 582 students, to 2024-25, when it had 475. The ratio was 15.3:1 in 2020-21 and 14.1:1 in 2024-25.
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Cameron County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
426,120
Census ACS
Median income
$52,601
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
22%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
21%
Below federal line
Schools in county
187
97,392 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in HARLINGEN CISD
- Harlingen High SchoolHigh · 2,433 students
- Harlingen H S - SouthHigh · 2,019 students
- Dr Abraham P Cano Freshman AcademyCombined · 1,035 students
- Moises Vela Middle SchoolMiddle · 761 students
- Treasure Hills Elementary SchoolElementary · 758 students
- Gutierrez Middle SchoolMiddle · 747 students
Other schools in HARLINGEN
- Harlingen High SchoolHigh · 2,433 students
- Harlingen H S - SouthHigh · 2,019 students
- Dr Abraham P Cano Freshman AcademyCombined · 1,035 students
- Moises Vela Middle SchoolMiddle · 761 students
- Treasure Hills Elementary SchoolElementary · 758 students
- Gutierrez Middle SchoolMiddle · 747 students
Other Long Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 3 states are named Long Elementary. Long Elementary School is the 3rd largest of the 4.
- Long Elementary SchoolMIDLAND, TX · 575 students
- LONG ELEM.ST LOUIS, MO · 545 students
- Long Elementary SchoolDEARBORN, MI · 238 students
Nearby schools
- Hcisd Early Childhood Academy0.2 mi · 255
- Lee H Means Elementary School0.6 mi · 730
- Edna Tamayo House0.7 mi · 8
- Harlingen High School0.8 mi · 2,433
- Memorial Middle School0.9 mi · 705
- Harlingen School of Health Professions1.1 mi · 448
Frequently asked questions
About Long Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Long Elementary School?
Long Elementary School enrolls approximately 475 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Long Elementary School serve?
Long Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Long Elementary School?
Approximately 14.1:1 students per teacher at Long Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Long Elementary School?
Student demographics at Long Elementary School are roughly 3% White, 96% Hispanic, 0% Black, 0% Two or more.
Is Long Elementary School public or private?
Long Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by HARLINGEN CISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.