ROEL A & CELIA R SAENZ EL

Set in ROMA, Texas, ROEL A & CELIA R SAENZ EL is a mid-tier elementary-level community, overseen by ROMA ISD. It hosts 526 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Within ROMA ISD, which oversees 10 schools and 6,019 students, ROEL A & CELIA R SAENZ EL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, ROEL A & CELIA R SAENZ EL logs that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Compared to Starr County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, ROEL A & CELIA R SAENZ EL is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 33.2%; this one delivers 82.5%, a residual of +49.3 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Starr County indicate the typical household earns roughly $37,639 per year, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 31% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Starr County's 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,900 students), ROEL A & CELIA R SAENZ EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: FLORENCE J SCOTT EL, around 1.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ROEL A & CELIA R SAENZ EL comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 65.5%.

ROEL A & CELIA R SAENZ EL operates from a town-center location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 9%: 580 students in 2018 compared to 526 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

Inside the community feed, members of the ROEL A & CELIA R SAENZ EL community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.