Ruben Hinojosa Elementary School

Size

Of the 8 elementary schools in Sharyland ISD, Ruben Hinojosa Elementary School is the smallest, with 4.8% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 565; Ruben Hinojosa 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 5 with 76 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 36, against an average of 59 per grade. This year grade 6 has 52% more students than kindergarten (73 against 48). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 36 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 91.1% here and 93.1% across Sharyland ISD. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

55.1% of its students are eligible 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

With 28.85 full-time-equivalent teachers for 472 students, Ruben Hinojosa Elementary School has 16.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 472 students would have about 31.9 teachers, so Ruben Hinojosa Elementary School has 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

Ruben Hinojosa Elementary School is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people, which NCES calls city, small. The nearest other elementary school is Harry Shimotsu Elementary School, 0.9 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 99 other elementary schools, 25 of them within 5 miles.

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