MARTIN DE LEON EL

MARTIN DE LEON EL is an elementary-level community of medium-sized scale in VICTORIA, Texas, part of VICTORIA ISD, teacheing 531 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within VICTORIA ISD, which oversees 25 schools and 12,919 students, MARTIN DE LEON EL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, MARTIN DE LEON EL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 63% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 28% White, 5% Black, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 59% of students at MARTIN DE LEON EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Victoria County's rate of about 69%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), MARTIN DE LEON EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.3%, the actual is 41.8%, a residual of -6.5 points.

In the broader community, census data for Victoria County shows median household earnings sit near $70,896, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Victoria County runs 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,160 students), of which MARTIN DE LEON EL is one.

VICTORIA EAST H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MARTIN DE LEON EL. On composite proficiency, MARTIN DE LEON EL comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 27.0%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MARTIN DE LEON EL has shrank 6%, going from 567 students in 2018 to 531 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 36% to 28% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

On allk12, members of the MARTIN DE LEON EL community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.