Congressman Silvestre & Carolina School

Size

Congressman Silvestre & Carolina School is the largest of Canutillo ISD's 6 elementary schools; its 577 students are 10% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 485; Congressman Silvestre & Carolina 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 4 with 101 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 49, against an average of 82 per grade. This year grade 5 has 38% more students than kindergarten (95 against 69). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 49 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 81.6% here and 92.5% across Canutillo ISD. White students are next, at 11.1%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

33.1% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 63.5% across Canutillo 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 full-time-equivalent teachers for 577 students, Congressman Silvestre & Carolina School has 17.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 577 students would have about 39 teachers, so Congressman Silvestre & Carolina School has 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

Congressman Silvestre & Carolina School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Kohlberg Elementary School, 0.7 miles away in El Paso ISD. Within 10 miles there are 50 other elementary schools, 17 of them within 5 miles.

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