Truman Elementary School

Size

Of the 31 elementary schools in Edinburg CISD, Truman Elementary School is the largest, with 2.1% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.3 miles away and have a median of 550 students, so Truman 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 pre-K with 118 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 82, against an average of 99 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 114 in kindergarten and 112 in grade 5. It also enrolls 118 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 98% of enrollment, about the same share as across Edinburg CISD (97.9%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

85.9% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 80.7% across Edinburg CISD 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

Truman Elementary School has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 696 students would have about 47 teachers, so Truman Elementary School has 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, midsize, which means it is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is IDEA Edinburg Academy, 0.9 miles away in IDEA Public Schools. There are 23 elementary schools within 5 miles and 72 within 10 miles.

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