Alberto and Celia Barrera Elementary School

Size

Of the 9 elementary schools in Rio Grande City Grulla ISD, Alberto and Celia Barrera Elementary School is the 7th largest, with 4.5% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.9 miles away and have a median of 490 students, so Alberto and Celia Barrera 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 78 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 49, against an average of 60 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 61 in kindergarten and 56 in grade 5. It also enrolls 78 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 Rio Grande City Grulla ISD (99.5%). Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 96.4% across Rio Grande City Grulla 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

Alberto and Celia Barrera Elementary School has 30.51 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 420 students would have about 28.4 teachers, so Alberto and Celia Barrera Elementary School has 2.1 more.

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 town, distant, which means it is in a town 10 to 35 miles from an urbanized area. The nearest other elementary school is Ringgold Elementary School, 0.9 miles away in the same district. There are 6 elementary schools within 5 miles and 10 within 10 miles.

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