Leal Elementary School

Size

Of the 14 elementary schools in Mission CISD, Leal Elementary School is the 7th largest, with 3.2% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.1 miles away and have a median of 341 students, so Leal 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 79 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 42, against an average of 62 per grade. This year grade 5 has 14% more students than kindergarten (65 against 57). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 79 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 97.5% of enrollment, about the same share as across Mission CISD (97.5%). Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

89.2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 86.2% across Mission 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

Leal Elementary School has 29.02 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 436 students would have about 29.5 teachers, so Leal Elementary School has about as many as that.

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 city, small, which means it is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is Excellence in Leadership Academy, 0.4 miles away in Excellence in Leadership Academy. There are 29 elementary schools within 5 miles and 76 within 10 miles.

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