VILLARREAL EL

Set in EDINBURG, Texas, VILLARREAL EL is a reasonably sized elementary campus, overseen by EDINBURG CISD. It serves 543 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 44 schools in EDINBURG CISD (33,343 students total), VILLARREAL EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, VILLARREAL 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 visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, VILLARREAL EL has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.3:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 93% of students at VILLARREAL EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Hidalgo County runs at roughly 85%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, VILLARREAL EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.3%, the actual is 39.4%, a residual of +6.1 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Hidalgo County put the typical household earns roughly $54,338 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. VILLARREAL EL is one of 364 public schools in Hidalgo County (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students).

Nearest neighbor: MONTE CRISTO EL, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, VILLARREAL EL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.8%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. VILLARREAL EL's enrollment has decreased 16% since 2018, when it stood at 644 (now 543). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 today.

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