Roque Guerra Jr. Elementary School

Size

Of the 9 elementary schools in Rio Grande City Grulla ISD, Roque Guerra Jr. Elementary School is the 2nd largest, with 6.5% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 3 miles away and have a median of 485 students, so Roque Guerra Jr. 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 4 with 101 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 65, against an average of 86 per grade. This year grade 5 has 16% more students than kindergarten (92 against 79). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 98 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 99.3% of enrollment, about the same share as across Rio Grande City Grulla ISD (99.5%).

96.4% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 96.4% across Rio Grande City Grulla 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

Roque Guerra Jr. Elementary School has 39.09 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 604 students would have about 40.8 teachers, so Roque Guerra Jr. Elementary School has 1.7 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 town, distant, which means it is in a town 10 to 35 miles from an urbanized area. The nearest other elementary school is Alberto and Celia Barrera Elementary School, 1.1 miles away in the same district. There are 6 elementary schools within 5 miles and 10 within 10 miles.

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