SAN CARLOS EL

SAN CARLOS EL operates as a reasonably sized elementary campus in EDINBURG, Texas, overseen by EDINBURG CISD. Current enrollment sits at 471 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

EDINBURG CISD runs 44 schools in total, collectively educating 33,343 students. SAN CARLOS EL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, SAN CARLOS EL logs that 100% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The wider county runs roughly 92% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting SAN CARLOS EL higher than the state norm the norm. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Hidalgo County (around 85%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, SAN CARLOS EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.5%; this one delivers 41.5%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Hidalgo County indicate median household earnings sit near $54,338, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. Across Hidalgo County's 364 public schools (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students), SAN CARLOS EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is JOHN F KENNEDY EL, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SAN CARLOS EL. On composite proficiency, SAN CARLOS EL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 36.4%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SAN CARLOS EL has declined 6%, going from 500 students in 2018 to 471 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 today.

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