ROQUE GUERRA JR EL

As a medium-sized K-5 school in RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas, ROQUE GUERRA JR EL instructs 604 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by RIO GRANDE CITY GRULLA ISD.

RIO GRANDE CITY GRULLA ISD runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 9,316 students. ROQUE GUERRA JR EL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, ROQUE GUERRA JR EL records that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, ROQUE GUERRA JR EL has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 96% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ROQUE GUERRA JR EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.8%; this one delivers 27.1%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Starr County shows 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), ROQUE GUERRA JR EL is one campus in the mix.

ALBERTO AND CELIA BARRERA EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ROQUE GUERRA JR EL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ROQUE GUERRA JR EL ranks 9th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 48.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 20%: 754 students in 2018 compared to 604 in 2025.

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