ROMULO D MARTINEZ EL

As a moderately sized elementary school in MISSION, Texas, ROMULO D MARTINEZ EL serves 525 students from grades pre-K through 6, part of SHARYLAND ISD.

Within SHARYLAND ISD, which oversees 13 schools and 9,844 students, ROMULO D MARTINEZ EL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, ROMULO D MARTINEZ EL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (96%). Other groups include 2% White.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Hidalgo County's rate of about 85%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ROMULO D MARTINEZ EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.5%, the actual is 55.4%, a residual of +9.9 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Hidalgo County) logs that median household income runs about $54,338, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. In all, Hidalgo County runs 364 public schools (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students), of which ROMULO D MARTINEZ EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: SHARYLAND ADVANCED ACADEMIC ACADEMY, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ROMULO D MARTINEZ EL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ROMULO D MARTINEZ EL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 53.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. ROMULO D MARTINEZ EL's enrollment has edged down 16% since 2018, when it stood at 622 (now 525). Class-load math has tightened: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.