A N Rico Elementary School

Size

A N Rico Elementary School is the 5th largest of Weslaco ISD's 10 elementary schools; its 780 students are 4.8% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 692; A N Rico Elementary School is close to their typical size.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is pre-K with 143 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 86, against an average of 111 per grade. This year grade 5 has 27% more students than kindergarten (109 against 86). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 143 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 98.5% here and 98% across Weslaco ISD. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

89.4% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 81.2% across Weslaco ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 37.98 full-time-equivalent teachers for 780 students, A N Rico Elementary School has 20.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 780 students would have about 52.7 teachers, so A N Rico Elementary School has 14.7 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

A N Rico Elementary School is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other elementary school is IDEA Academy Weslaco, 0.6 miles away in IDEA Public Schools. Within 10 miles there are 43 other elementary schools, 17 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.