Cleckler/Heald Elementary School

Size

Of the 10 elementary schools in Weslaco ISD, Cleckler/Heald Elementary School is the 3rd largest, with 5.6% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.5 miles away and have a median of 619 students, so Cleckler/Heald 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 grade 2 with 141 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 104, against an average of 130 per grade. This year grade 5 has 22% more students than kindergarten (127 against 104). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 135 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 97.4% of enrollment, about the same share as across Weslaco ISD (98%).

82.5% of students qualify 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

Cleckler/Heald Elementary School has 40.63 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 22.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 909 students would have about 61.4 teachers, so Cleckler/Heald Elementary School has 20.8 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 suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is Horizon Montessori II - STEM Academy, 0.2 miles away in Horizon Montessori Public Schools. There are 23 elementary schools within 5 miles and 58 within 10 miles.

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