STUART PLACE EL

STUART PLACE EL, a medium-sized K-5 school in HARLINGEN, Texas, one of the schools within HARLINGEN CISD, educates 578 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

HARLINGEN CISD runs 31 schools in total, collectively educating 17,506 students. STUART PLACE EL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, STUART PLACE EL logs that 95% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 5% White.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.3:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 55% of students at STUART PLACE EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Cameron County's rate of about 84%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, STUART PLACE EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 41.9%.

Zooming out to the county, Cameron County reports that median household income runs about $52,601, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 21% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Cameron County's 187 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,392 students), STUART PLACE EL is one campus in the mix.

MOISES VELA MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around STUART PLACE EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts STUART PLACE EL at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 45.6%.

STUART PLACE EL operates from an inner-city location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 23%: 755 students in 2018 compared to 578 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 90% to 95%. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, the feed for STUART PLACE EL typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.