Romulo D Martinez Elementary School

Size

Of the 8 elementary schools in Sharyland ISD, Romulo D Martinez Elementary School is the 7th largest, with 5.3% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.8 miles away and have a median of 545 students, so Romulo D Martinez Elementary School 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 grade 3 with 79 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 47, against an average of 66 per grade. This year grade 6 has 17% more students than kindergarten (75 against 64). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 51 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 96% of enrollment, about the same share as across Sharyland ISD (93.1%). Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

65% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 65.1% across Sharyland 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

Romulo D Martinez Elementary School has 35.03 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 525 students would have about 35.5 teachers, so Romulo D Martinez 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 IDEA McAllen Academy, 0.7 miles away in IDEA Public Schools. There are 35 elementary schools within 5 miles and 113 within 10 miles.

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