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Enrollment
521
Elementary
DISTRICT 435 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MISSION CISD·NCES 483104009485
Raquel Cavazos Elementary School
803 S LOS EBANOS BLVD, ALTON, TX 78573 · (956) 323-7200 · Hidalgo County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL521 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 54% of Texas public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- BThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
447 students
DISTRICT 87% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 77 | 15% |
| Kindergarten | 75 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 67 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 61 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 73 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 83 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 85 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (75) is 12% smaller than its 5th grade class (85).
Student demographics
2%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 5% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
56.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +35.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
48.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +32.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 35 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 32 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 27.0% | 29.0% | 22.0% | 22.0% |
| Mathematics | 19.0% | 29.0% | 27.0% | 25.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 56.0% | 48.0% |
| 2024-25 | 56.0% | 44.0% |
| 2023-24 | 46.0% | 43.0% |
| 2022-23 | 46.0% | 40.0% |
| 2021-22 | 30.0% | 34.0% |
| 2020-21 | 21.0% | 16.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
40.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.0%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Raquel Cavazos Elementary School
Raquel Cavazos Elementary School's state test result (40.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raquel Cavazos Elementary School this school | 521 | 85.8% | 40.8% |
| Keller Elementary School BROWNSVILLE | 537 | 85.8% | 46.8% |
| Lloyd M Bentsen Elementary School MISSION | 538 | 85.7% | 51.6% |
| E B Reyna Elementary School MISSION | 523 | 87.0% | 49.0% |
| Lamar Elementary School DEL RIO | 547 | 87.0% | 38.4% |
| Josefa L Sambrano Elementary School SAN ELIZARIO | 554 | 87.2% | N/A |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Raquel Cavazos Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Hidalgo County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.8% | #2,490 of 4,401 | #110 of 181 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.0% | #1,979 of 4,466 ▲ 285 | #99 of 183 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.0% | #1,851 of 4,466 ▼ 23 | #70 of 183 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +9.0pp | #1,602 of 3,998 | #70 of 180 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 521 | #2,329 of 4,938 | #93 of 192 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.6:1 | #4,115 of 4,622 | #148 of 185 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 2.3% | #4,454 of 4,628 | #104 of 185 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 85.8% | #1,499 of 4,789 | #136 of 190 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.6% | #2,647 of 2,838 | #121 of 128 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
521
-50 (-9%) vs 2020
+11% since 2010-11, when it was 470
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
was 17.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 521 | 29.6 | 17.6:1 | 86% (447) |
| 2023-24 | 539 | 31.8 | 17.0:1 | 89% (478) |
| 2022-23 | 554 | 32.6 | 17.0:1 | 87% (481) |
| 2020-21 | 571 | 33 | 17.3:1 | 87% (496) |
| 2017-18 | 535 | 33.1 | 16.1:1 | 82% (438) |
| 2015-16 | 535 | 30 | 17.8:1 | 85% (456) |
| 2010-11 | 470 | 29 | 16.2:1 | 0% (0) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Raquel Cavazos Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (535 to 521); teachers down 11% (33.1 to 29.6).
About Raquel Cavazos Elementary School
Federal records list Raquel Cavazos Elementary School as an elementary school in ALTON, Texas. It had 521 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 5.
MISSION CISD is made up of 22 schools with 13,765 students in all.
The share of students at Raquel Cavazos Elementary School who are Hispanic is 99%. A diversity index of 2% means there is a 2% chance two randomly chosen students at Raquel Cavazos Elementary School are from different groups.
There are 29.6 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 17.6:1. Compared with the 15.1:1 average for elementary schools in Texas, this school's ratio is higher. On the income side, 86% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Hidalgo County is similar, at 85%.
Among Texas public elementary schools, Raquel Cavazos Elementary School outscored 54%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Raquel Cavazos Elementary School, the prediction is 37.0% and the result is 40.8%.
In Hidalgo County, the median household earns about $54,338 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 21%, and roughly 23% of residents are in poverty. Across Hidalgo County, 364 public schools serve about 212,859 students.
Mission Collegiate High School is about 0.2 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of Raquel Cavazos Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 44.7%; Raquel Cavazos Elementary School's is 40.8%, ranking 5th of 9.
Federal data place Raquel Cavazos Elementary School in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's enrollment decreased 9% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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Hidalgo County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
891,977
Census ACS
Median income
$54,338
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
23%
Below federal line
Schools in county
364
212,859 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MISSION CISD
- Mission High SchoolHigh · 2,154 students
- Veterans Memorial High SchoolHigh · 1,737 students
- White Junior High SchoolMiddle · 831 students
- Alton Memorial Junior High SchoolMiddle · 819 students
- Mission Junior High SchoolMiddle · 711 students
- Mims Elementary SchoolElementary · 673 students
Other schools in ALTON
- Alton Memorial Junior High SchoolMiddle · 819 students
- Jessie L Jensen Elementary SchoolElementary · 615 students
- Domingo Trevino Middle SchoolMiddle · 531 students
- Cantu Elementary SchoolElementary · 521 students
- Mission Collegiate High SchoolHigh · 399 students
- Carl C Waitz Elementary SchoolElementary · 361 students
Nearby schools
- Mission Collegiate High School0.2 mi · 399
- Alton Memorial Junior High School0.3 mi · 819
- Domingo Trevino Middle School0.6 mi · 531
- Cantu Elementary School0.6 mi · 521
- Carl C Waitz Elementary School0.7 mi · 361
- Alton Elementary School1.4 mi · 337
Frequently asked questions
About Raquel Cavazos Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Raquel Cavazos Elementary School?
Raquel Cavazos Elementary School enrolls approximately 521 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Raquel Cavazos Elementary School serve?
Raquel Cavazos Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Raquel Cavazos Elementary School?
Approximately 17.6:1 students per teacher at Raquel Cavazos Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Raquel Cavazos Elementary School?
At Raquel Cavazos Elementary School, the student body is approximately 1% White, 99% Hispanic.
Is Raquel Cavazos Elementary School public or private?
Raquel Cavazos Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by MISSION CISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.