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T PRICE EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About T PRICE EL
As a close-knit primary school in DONNA, Texas, T PRICE EL works with 416 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within DONNA ISD.
Across the 20 schools in DONNA ISD (12,937 students total), T PRICE EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, T PRICE EL lists that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority.
On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.6:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 90% of students at T PRICE EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, T PRICE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.5%, the actual is 37.0%, a residual of +2.5 points.
Across the wider county, Hidalgo County reports that 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%. In all, Hidalgo County runs 364 public schools (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students), of which T PRICE EL is one.
The closest other public school is DONNA H S, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, T PRICE EL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.4%.
The school occupies a commuter-belt site.
Over the past 7-year window. T PRICE EL's enrollment has shrank 18% since 2018, when it stood at 507 (now 416). Class-load math has tightened: from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 in 2025.
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