Aida C Escobar Elementary School

Size

Of the 27 elementary schools in Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD, Aida C Escobar Elementary School is the 2nd largest, with 2.5% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.7 miles away and have a median of 570 students, so Aida C Escobar Elementary School is larger than most of them.

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 172 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 84, against an average of 105 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 89 in kindergarten and 93 in grade 5. It also enrolls 172 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 98.8% of enrollment, about the same share as across Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD (98.8%). Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

90.5% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 94% across Pharr-San Juan-Alamo 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

Aida C Escobar Elementary School has 42.53 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 735 students would have about 49.7 teachers, so Aida C Escobar Elementary School has 7.2 fewer.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, small, which means it is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is Vanguard Picasso, 0.9 miles away in Vanguard Academy. There are 42 elementary schools within 5 miles and 117 within 10 miles.

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