PETE GALLEGO EL

PETE GALLEGO EL, a compact primary school in EAGLE PASS, Texas, run under EAGLE PASS ISD, enrolls 327 students, covering grades 1 through 6. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so PETE GALLEGO EL sits 37% leaner than that benchmark.

PETE GALLEGO EL is one of 24 schools operated by EAGLE PASS ISD, a district that serves 13,820 students overall.

In terms of who attends, PETE GALLEGO EL lists that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Compared to Maverick County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, On paper, PETE GALLEGO EL has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting PETE GALLEGO EL higher than the state norm the norm. Around 81% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PETE GALLEGO EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.5%, the actual is 48.3%, a residual of +9.8 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Maverick County put median household earnings sit near $49,568, 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 20%. Across Maverick County's 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,820 students), PETE GALLEGO EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: SECO MINES EL, around 1.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PETE GALLEGO EL at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 51.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PETE GALLEGO EL has decreased 19%, going from 405 students in 2018 to 327 in 2025.

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