MARCIA R GARZA

MARCIA R GARZA is an elementary school of average-sized scale in ALAMO, Texas, operated by PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD, enrolling 545 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD, which oversees 44 schools and 29,749 students, MARCIA R GARZA is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, MARCIA R GARZA reports that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority.

On the income-and-resources front, MARCIA R GARZA lists 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Hidalgo County runs at roughly 85%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, MARCIA R GARZA performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.5%, the actual is 39.0%, a residual of +8.5 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Hidalgo County shows the typical household earns roughly $54,338 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. Across Hidalgo County's 364 public schools (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students), MARCIA R GARZA is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: PSJA MEMORIAL EARLY COLLEGE H S, around 1.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MARCIA R GARZA at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 40.7%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 7%: 586 students in 2018 compared to 545 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

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