TREASURE HILLS EL

As a mid-sized elementary school in HARLINGEN, Texas, TREASURE HILLS EL teaches 758 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under HARLINGEN CISD. That puts it 46% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

Within HARLINGEN CISD, which oversees 31 schools and 17,506 students, TREASURE HILLS EL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, TREASURE HILLS EL records that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder consists of 5% White. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 69% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Cameron County's rate of about 84%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, TREASURE HILLS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.6%, the actual is 40.7%, a residual of -2.9 points.

In the area at large, Cameron County reports that the typical household earns roughly $52,601 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 21%. Across Cameron County's 187 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,392 students), TREASURE HILLS EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: HARLINGEN COLLEGIATE H S, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. TREASURE HILLS EL's enrollment has contracted 17% since 2018, when it stood at 909 (now 758). Class-load math has tightened: from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 in 2025.

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