OLLIE O'GRADY EL

OLLIE O'GRADY EL operates as a mid-sized primary school in MISSION, Texas, run under MISSION CISD. Current enrollment sits at 457 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

MISSION CISD comprises 22 schools with combined enrollment of 13,765 students; OLLIE O'GRADY EL is among them.

Looking at the student body, OLLIE O'GRADY EL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (96%). The remainder reads as 4% White.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 92% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, OLLIE O'GRADY EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.9%, the actual is 38.2%, a residual of +4.3 points.

In the area at large, census data for Hidalgo County shows the typical household earns roughly $54,338 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. OLLIE O'GRADY EL is one of 364 public schools in Hidalgo County (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students).

The closest other public school is WHITE J H, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, OLLIE O'GRADY EL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 43.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at OLLIE O'GRADY EL has shrank 6%, going from 486 students in 2018 to 457 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 today.

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