SEGUIN EL

SEGUIN EL is one of the mid-tier K-5 schools in MCALLEN, Texas, one of the schools within MCALLEN ISD, with 530 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

SEGUIN EL is one of 31 schools operated by MCALLEN ISD, a district that teaches 19,890 students overall.

In terms of who attends, SEGUIN EL logs that 96% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 4% White.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Hidalgo County's rate of about 85%.

After controlling for student poverty, SEGUIN EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.0%, the actual is 39.9%, a residual of +7.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Hidalgo County indicate the typical household earns roughly $54,338 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. Across Hidalgo County's 364 public schools (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students), SEGUIN EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is ACHIEVE EARLY COLLEGE H S, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SEGUIN EL at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 51.9%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Looking at the recent track record. SEGUIN EL's enrollment has rose 3% since 2018, when it stood at 513 (now 530).

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