Eloy Garza Salazar Elementary School

Size

Of the 13 elementary schools in Donna ISD, Eloy Garza Salazar Elementary School is the 9th largest, with 3.4% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.8 miles away with a median enrollment of 483; Eloy Garza Salazar 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 79 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 51, against an average of 64 per grade. This year grade 5 has 55% more students than kindergarten (79 against 51). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 53 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 98.9% here and 99.6% across Donna ISD.

95.1% 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 28 full-time-equivalent teachers for 446 students, Eloy Garza Salazar Elementary School has 15.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 446 students would have about 30.1 teachers, so Eloy Garza Salazar Elementary School has 2.1 fewer.

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

Location

Eloy Garza Salazar 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 Le Noir Elementary School, 1.1 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 84 other elementary schools, 27 of them within 5 miles.

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