Capt D Salinas II Elementary School

Size

Capt D Salinas II Elementary School is the 7th largest of Donna ISD's 13 elementary schools; its 457 students are 3.5% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.6 miles away with a median enrollment of 533; Capt D Salinas II 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 86 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 53, against an average of 65 per grade. This year grade 5 has 62% more students than kindergarten (86 against 53). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 63 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

All of its students are reported as Hispanic.

86% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 92.4% across Donna 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 33.46 full-time-equivalent teachers for 457 students, Capt D Salinas II Elementary School has 13.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 457 students would have about 30.9 teachers, so Capt D Salinas II Elementary School has 2.6 more.

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

Location

Capt D Salinas II 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 Zeferino Farias Elementary School, 1.3 miles away in Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD. Within 10 miles there are 97 other elementary schools, 33 of them within 5 miles.

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