ROOSEVELT EL

ROOSEVELT EL is an intimate K-5 school in MCALLEN, Texas, run under MCALLEN ISD. The school instructs 357 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 31% below the state mean of about 519.

MCALLEN ISD runs 31 schools in total, collectively educating 19,890 students. ROOSEVELT EL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, ROOSEVELT EL shows that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school records 7% White. That composition is broadly in line with Hidalgo County as a whole.

On the resource side, ROOSEVELT EL logs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting ROOSEVELT EL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Hidalgo County (around 85%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, ROOSEVELT EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.8%, the actual is 40.7%, a residual of +7.9 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Hidalgo County indicate median household earnings sit near $54,338, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Hidalgo County runs 364 public schools (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students), of which ROOSEVELT EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: HOUSTON EL, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ROOSEVELT EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ROOSEVELT EL at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 50.4%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 34%: 538 students in 2018 compared to 357 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share expanded from 0% to 7%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 today.

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