M Rivas Primary Discovery Academy

Size

M Rivas Primary Discovery Academy is the 11th largest of Donna ISD's 13 elementary schools; its 413 students are 3.2% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 452; M Rivas Primary Discovery Academy 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 pre-K with 131 students, and its smallest is grade 2 with 89, against an average of 103 per grade. This year grade 2 has 11% fewer students than kindergarten (89 against 100). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 131 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

All of its students are reported as Hispanic.

87.7% 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 21.22 full-time-equivalent teachers for 413 students, M Rivas Primary Discovery Academy has 19.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 413 students would have about 27.9 teachers, so M Rivas Primary Discovery Academy has 6.7 fewer.

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

Location

M Rivas Primary Discovery Academy is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. J W Caceres Discovery Intermediate Academy (in the same district) is listed at the same location. Within 10 miles there are 78 other elementary schools, 24 of them within 5 miles.

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