Amanda Garza-Pena Elementary School

Size

Of the 27 elementary schools in Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD, Amanda Garza-Pena Elementary School is the 13th largest, with 1.9% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1 miles away with a median enrollment of 455; Amanda Garza-Pena 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 grade 5 with 102 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 62, against an average of 80 per grade. This year grade 5 has 65% more students than kindergarten (102 against 62). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 90 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 99.3% here and 98.8% across Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD.

93% of its students are eligible 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

With 34 full-time-equivalent teachers for 557 students, Amanda Garza-Pena Elementary School has 16.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 557 students would have about 37.6 teachers, so Amanda Garza-Pena Elementary School has 3.6 fewer.

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

Location

Amanda Garza-Pena 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 San Juan, 0.4 miles away in IDEA Public Schools. Within 10 miles there are 109 other elementary schools, 34 of them within 5 miles.

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