Dr. R E Margo Elementary School

Size

Of the 10 elementary schools in Weslaco ISD, Dr. R E Margo Elementary School is the 2nd largest, with 6.7% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.3 miles away and have a median of 768 students, so Dr. R E Margo 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 pre-K with 202 students, and its smallest is grade 2 with 126, against an average of 155 per grade. This year grade 5 has 12% fewer students than kindergarten (141 against 161). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 202 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 97.7% of enrollment, about the same share as across Weslaco ISD (98%). Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

88.6% 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

Dr. R E Margo Elementary School has 50.43 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 21.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 1,085 students would have about 73.3 teachers, so Dr. R E Margo Elementary School has 22.9 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 Memorial Elementary School, 1.1 miles away in the same district. There are 22 elementary schools within 5 miles and 42 within 10 miles.

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