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Enrollment
457
Elementary
DISTRICT 424 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EDCOUCH-ELSA ISD·NCES 481806006098
Ruben C Rodriguez Elementary School
1302 W SANTA ROSA, EDCOUCH, TX 78538 · (956) 262-6062 · Hidalgo County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL457 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 11% of Texas public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
88%
402 students
DISTRICT 91% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 83 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 89 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 74 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 75 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 67 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (83) is 24% larger than its 5th grade class (67).
Student demographics
1%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 1% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Ruben C Rodriguez Elementary School→David Ybarra Fine Arts Academy→Carlos F Truan Junior High School
Based on grade levels within EDCOUCH-ELSA ISD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
33.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +16.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
35.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +25.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 35 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 16 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 25 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 8.0% | 25.0% | 24.0% | 43.0% |
| Mathematics | 12.0% | 23.0% | 23.0% | 42.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 33.0% | 35.0% |
| 2024-25 | 32.0% | 30.0% |
| 2023-24 | 29.0% | 22.0% |
| 2022-23 | 24.0% | 29.0% |
| 2021-22 | 37.0% | 31.0% |
| 2020-21 | 17.0% | 10.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
25.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.1%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Ruben C Rodriguez Elementary School
Ruben C Rodriguez Elementary School's state test result (25.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ruben C Rodriguez Elementary School this school | 457 | 88.0% | 25.7% |
| Ysleta PK Center EL PASO | 453 | 88.3% | N/A |
| Valley View Elementary School HIDALGO | 446 | 87.9% | 65.0% |
| Sharp Elementary School BROWNSVILLE | 432 | 88.4% | 52.0% |
| Crockett Elementary School EL PASO | 453 | 86.5% | 26.9% |
| Language Development Center EAGLE PASS | 440 | 86.4% | N/A |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Ruben C Rodriguez Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Hidalgo County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.7% | #4,004 of 4,401 | #176 of 181 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.0% | #3,440 of 4,466 ▲ 305 | #161 of 183 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.0% | #4,159 of 4,466 ▼ 91 | #177 of 183 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +7.5pp | #1,794 of 3,998 | #80 of 180 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 457 | #2,945 of 4,938 | #121 of 192 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #1,388 of 4,622 | #23 of 185 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 0.9% | #4,543 of 4,628 | #142 of 185 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 88.0% | #1,285 of 4,789 | #114 of 190 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.3% | #973 of 1,307 | #33 of 53 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
457
+1 (+0%) vs 2020
-27% since 1990-91, when it was 625
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
was 15.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 457 | 33 | 13.8:1 | 88% (402) |
| 2023-24 | 454 | 29.2 | 15.5:1 | 90% (409) |
| 2022-23 | 421 | 25.4 | 16.6:1 | 92% (388) |
| 2020-21 | 456 | 30 | 15.2:1 | 94% (429) |
| 2017-18 | 434 | 27.2 | 16.0:1 | 95% (413) |
| 2015-16 | 431 | 25 | 17.2:1 | 99% (428) |
| 2010-11 | 390 | 26 | 15.0:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2000-01 | 366 | 21 | 17.4:1 | 1% (3) |
| 1990-91 | 625 | 27 | 23.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ruben C Rodriguez Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 5% (434 to 457); teachers up 21% (27.2 to 33).
About Ruben C Rodriguez Elementary School
Ruben C Rodriguez Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary school, is located in EDCOUCH, Texas. It enrolls 457 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are kindergarten through 5.
EDCOUCH-ELSA ISD counts 4,349 students in its 9 schools, and Ruben C Rodriguez Elementary School is one of them.
By race and ethnicity, Ruben C Rodriguez Elementary School is 100% Hispanic. A diversity index of 1% means there is a 1% chance two randomly chosen students at Ruben C Rodriguez Elementary School are from different groups.
Ruben C Rodriguez Elementary School has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 13.8:1. Elementary schools in Texas have an average ratio of 15.1:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 88%.
Among Texas public elementary schools, Ruben C Rodriguez Elementary School outscored 11%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
A school with Ruben C Rodriguez Elementary School's lunch-eligibility share in Texas is predicted to score 36.1%. Ruben C Rodriguez Elementary School scores 25.7%, 10.4 points below that line.
Looking at the county, Hidalgo County, the median household earns about $54,338 a year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 23% of people live in poverty. Hidalgo County has 364 public schools with about 212,859 students, including Ruben C Rodriguez Elementary School.
The closest school to Ruben C Rodriguez Elementary School is Jorge R Gutierrez Early Childhood Center, located about 0.2 miles away. Ruben C Rodriguez Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Ruben C Rodriguez Elementary School's average proficiency of 25.7% compares with 36.3% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Locale: Town: Fringe. In NCES terms, the school is in a town close to an urbanized area.
Enrollment at Ruben C Rodriguez Elementary School was 456 in 2020-21 and 457 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 15.2:1; by 2024-25 it was 13.8:1.
The discussion board for Ruben C Rodriguez Elementary School is open to topics like athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Hidalgo County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
891,977
Census ACS
Median income
$54,338
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
23%
Below federal line
Schools in county
364
212,859 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in EDCOUCH-ELSA ISD
- Edcouch-Elsa High SchoolHigh · 1,309 students
- Carlos F Truan Junior High SchoolMiddle · 584 students
- Lyndon B Johnson Elementary SchoolElementary · 470 students
- Jorge R Gutierrez Early Childhood CenterElementary · 454 students
- John F Kennedy Elementary SchoolElementary · 383 students
- Santiago Garcia Elementary SchoolElementary · 358 students
Other schools in EDCOUCH
- Jorge R Gutierrez Early Childhood CenterElementary · 454 students
- Santiago Garcia Elementary SchoolElementary · 358 students
- David Ybarra Fine Arts AcademyMiddle · 264 students
Nearby schools
- Jorge R Gutierrez Early Childhood Center0.2 mi · 454
- Edcouch-Elsa H S Academy0.2 mi · 70
- Edcouch-Elsa High School0.3 mi · 1,309
- Carlos F Truan Junior High School0.6 mi · 584
- David Ybarra Fine Arts Academy0.6 mi · 264
- Lyndon B Johnson Elementary School0.8 mi · 470
Frequently asked questions
About Ruben C Rodriguez Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Ruben C Rodriguez Elementary School?
Ruben C Rodriguez Elementary School enrolls approximately 457 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Ruben C Rodriguez Elementary School serve?
Ruben C Rodriguez Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Ruben C Rodriguez Elementary School?
Approximately 13.8:1 students per teacher at Ruben C Rodriguez Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Ruben C Rodriguez Elementary School?
Student demographics at Ruben C Rodriguez Elementary School are roughly 0% White, 100% Hispanic.
What district is Ruben C Rodriguez Elementary School in?
Ruben C Rodriguez Elementary School is part of EDCOUCH-ELSA ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.