Rancho Verde Elementary School

Size

Of the 9 elementary schools in Los Fresnos CISD, Rancho Verde Elementary School is the largest, with 6.7% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.8 miles away and have a median of 544 students, so Rancho Verde 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 grade 5 with 119 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 84, against an average of 99 per grade. This year grade 5 has 42% more students than kindergarten (119 against 84). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 87 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 95.5% of enrollment, about the same share as across Los Fresnos CISD (96.8%). Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

65.2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 76.8% across Los Fresnos CISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Under Provision 2 or 3 of the National School Lunch Program, every student eats at no charge; meal applications are only collected in a base year.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Rancho Verde Elementary School has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 696 students would have about 47 teachers, so Rancho Verde Elementary School has 5 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 Sports Park Academy, 1.8 miles away in IDEA Public Schools. There are 16 elementary schools within 5 miles and 46 within 10 miles.

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