Marcia R Garza

Size

Of the 27 elementary schools in Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD, Marcia R Garza is the 14th largest, with 1.8% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 518; Marcia R Garza 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 122 students, and its smallest is grade 3 with 60, against an average of 78 per grade. This year grade 5 has 12% fewer students than kindergarten (65 against 74). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 122 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 98.3% here and 98.8% across Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD.

99.3% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 94% across Pharr-San Juan-Alamo 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 34.51 full-time-equivalent teachers for 545 students, Marcia R Garza has 15.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 545 students would have about 36.8 teachers, so Marcia R Garza has 2.3 fewer.

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

Location

Marcia R Garza 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 John McKeever Elementary School, 1.2 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 93 other elementary schools, 32 of them within 5 miles.

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