Judge Oscar De La Fuente Elementary School

Size

Of the 11 elementary schools in San Benito CISD, Judge Oscar De La Fuente Elementary School is the 10th largest, with 3% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.2 miles away and have a median of 432 students, so Judge Oscar De La Fuente Elementary School is smaller 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 44 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 31, against an average of 39 per grade. This year grade 5 has 29% more students than kindergarten (44 against 34). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 44 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 96.3% of enrollment, about the same share as across San Benito CISD (97.9%). Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

83% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 84.8% across San Benito CISD 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

Judge Oscar De La Fuente Elementary School has 19.93 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 271 students would have about 18.3 teachers, so Judge Oscar De La Fuente Elementary School has 1.6 more.

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 rural, fringe, which means it is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town. The nearest other elementary school is Sullivan Environmental Science Academy, 1.3 miles away in the same district. There are 12 elementary schools within 5 miles and 34 within 10 miles.

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