RAYBURN EL

RAYBURN EL is a medium-sized elementary school in MCALLEN, Texas, part of MCALLEN ISD. The school educates 530 students in grades pre-K through 5.

MCALLEN ISD comprises 31 schools with combined enrollment of 19,890 students; RAYBURN EL is among them.

On demographics, RAYBURN EL lists that nearly all students (92%) are Hispanic; the rest is composed of 5% White. That composition is broadly in line with Hidalgo County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, RAYBURN EL has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 58% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Hidalgo County runs at roughly 85%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, RAYBURN EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.8%; this one delivers 61.9%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Hidalgo County shows median household earnings sit near $54,338, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. Across Hidalgo County's 364 public schools (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students), RAYBURN EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: MORRIS MIDDLE, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts RAYBURN EL at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 59.8%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 12%: 474 students in 2018 compared to 530 in 2025.

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