Sgt Jose F Carrasco Elementary School

Size

Of the 30 elementary schools in Socorro ISD, Sgt Jose F Carrasco Elementary School is the 2nd largest, with 2.3% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.6 miles away and have a median of 836 students, so Sgt Jose F Carrasco 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 174 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 115, against an average of 152 per grade. This year grade 5 has 15% more students than kindergarten (174 against 151). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 115 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 78.3% of enrollment, a lower share than across Socorro ISD (91%). White students are next, at 13.4%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

57.4% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 71.1% across Socorro ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

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

Teachers

Sgt Jose F Carrasco Elementary School has 61.71 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 1,067 students would have about 72.1 teachers, so Sgt Jose F Carrasco Elementary School has 10.4 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 city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is Cactus Trails, 1 miles away in the same district. There are 17 elementary schools within 5 miles and 56 within 10 miles.

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