TAYLOR EL

TAYLOR EL is one of the intimate elementary campuss in MERCEDES, Texas, one of the schools within MERCEDES ISD, with 406 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 22% below the state mean of about 519.

Across the 11 schools in MERCEDES ISD (4,207 students total), TAYLOR EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, TAYLOR EL reports that 100% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Hidalgo County as a whole is about 92% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.7:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Hidalgo County (around 85%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, TAYLOR EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.0%, the actual is 32.6%, a residual of -0.4 points.

In the broader community, 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%. TAYLOR EL is one of 364 public schools in Hidalgo County (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students).

JOHN F KENNEDY EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), TAYLOR EL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 40.5%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 34%: 618 students in 2018 compared to 406 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.