RODOLFO TORRES EL

RODOLFO TORRES EL is a low-enrollment elementary campus in VICTORIA, Texas, run under VICTORIA ISD. The school serves 381 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so RODOLFO TORRES EL sits 27% smaller than that benchmark.

VICTORIA ISD runs 25 schools in total, collectively educating 12,919 students. RODOLFO TORRES EL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, RODOLFO TORRES EL logs that 81% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 10% White, 6% Black, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 83% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Victoria County runs at roughly 69%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), RODOLFO TORRES EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 37.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 26.8%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Victoria County) shows that median household income runs about $70,896, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Victoria County's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,160 students), RODOLFO TORRES EL is one campus in the mix.

O'CONNOR EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, RODOLFO TORRES EL comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 21.6%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 29%: 533 students in 2018 compared to 381 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 75% to 81%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 today.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.