SALINAS EL

SALINAS EL is one of the high-enrollment K-5 schools in LAREDO, Texas, one of the schools within UNITED ISD, with 854 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so SALINAS EL sits 65% larger than that benchmark.

SALINAS EL is one of 51 schools operated by UNITED ISD, a district that serves 40,742 students overall.

In terms of who attends, SALINAS EL reports that 100% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.8:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 82% of students at SALINAS EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SALINAS EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.0%; this one delivers 37.0%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Webb County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $63,058 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 19% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Webb County's 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,717 students), SALINAS EL is one campus in the mix.

RICARDO MOLINA MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SALINAS EL. On composite proficiency, SALINAS EL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.4%.

SALINAS EL operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 3%: 830 students in 2018 compared to 854 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.