Pfc Mario Ybarra Elementary School

Size

Of the 10 elementary schools in Weslaco ISD, Pfc Mario Ybarra Elementary School is the smallest, with 3.1% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.8 miles away and have a median of 710 students, so Pfc Mario Ybarra 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 96 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 61, against an average of 72 per grade. This year grade 5 has 22% more students than kindergarten (78 against 64). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 96 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 97.6% of enrollment, about the same share as across Weslaco ISD (98%).

88.3% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 81.2% across Weslaco 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

Pfc Mario Ybarra Elementary School has 28.25 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 503 students would have about 34 teachers, so Pfc Mario Ybarra Elementary School has 5.7 fewer.

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

Location

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 IDEA Academy Weslaco, 1.1 miles away in IDEA Public Schools. There are 18 elementary schools within 5 miles and 47 within 10 miles.

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