Mercedes Early Literacy Program

Mercedes Early Literacy Program is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in MERCEDES, Texas. It has an enrollment of 189 students in pre-K. Across elementary schools in Texas, the average enrollment is about 519.

In MERCEDES ISD, 11 schools enroll a combined 4,207 students.

By race and ethnicity, Mercedes Early Literacy Program is 100% Hispanic. The county population is about 92% Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 0%.

Staffing at Mercedes Early Literacy Program comes to 4.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 38.6:1. Elementary schools in Texas have an average ratio of 15.1:1. On the income side, 100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Hidalgo County report 85%.

In the surrounding county, Hidalgo County, the median household earns about $54,338 a year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 23% of people live in poverty. Hidalgo County has 364 public schools with about 212,859 students, including Mercedes Early Literacy Program.

Of the public schools around it, Mercedes Early Literacy Program is closest to Mercedes Early College Academy, less than a tenth of a mile away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Enrollment was 128 in 2020-21 and 189 in 2024-25. Large swings like this can come from changes to the grades a school serves. The number of students per teacher increased from 25.6 to 38.6 over 4 years.

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