General Ricardo Sanchez Elementary School

Size

General Ricardo Sanchez Elementary School is the largest of Rio Grande City Grulla ISD's 9 elementary schools; its 712 students are 7.6% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 3.7 miles away and have a median of 470 students, so General Ricardo Sanchez 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 125 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 85, against an average of 102 per grade. This year grade 5 has 31% more students than kindergarten (111 against 85). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 125 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 98.9% of enrollment, about the same share as across Rio Grande City Grulla ISD (99.5%). Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

94.2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 96.4% across Rio Grande City Grulla 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

General Ricardo Sanchez Elementary School has 40.95 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 712 students would have about 48.1 teachers, so General Ricardo Sanchez Elementary School has 7.1 fewer.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as town, distant, which means it is in a town 10 to 35 miles from an urbanized area. The nearest other elementary school is IDEA Rio Grande City Academy, 0.4 miles away in IDEA Public Schools. There are 5 elementary schools within 5 miles and 12 within 10 miles.

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