VILLAREAL EL

As a mid-sized K-5 school in OLMITO, Texas, VILLAREAL EL enrolls 444 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by LOS FRESNOS CISD.

LOS FRESNOS CISD runs 14 schools in total, collectively educating 10,357 students. VILLAREAL EL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, VILLAREAL EL logs that 95% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest breaks down as 4% White.

Looking at school resources, VILLAREAL EL logs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 74% of students at VILLAREAL EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Cameron County (around 84%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, VILLAREAL EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 49.5%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Cameron County put median household income runs about $52,601, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 21%. In all, Cameron County runs 187 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,392 students), of which VILLAREAL EL is one.

The closest other public school is OLMITO EL, roughly 1.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, VILLAREAL EL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 55.3%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 15%: 387 students in 2018 compared to 444 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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