WELDER EL

As a medium-sized K-5 school in SINTON, Texas, WELDER EL educates 520 students from grades pre-K through 2, overseen by SINTON ISD.

SINTON ISD runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,961 students. WELDER EL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, WELDER EL records that 86% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest comes out to 13% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.1:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 72% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against San Patricio County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for San Patricio County put the typical household earns roughly $69,704 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. WELDER EL is one of 33 public schools in San Patricio County (combined enrollment of about 13,920 students).

SINTON H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 7%: 562 students in 2018 compared to 520 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, members of the WELDER EL community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.