Vista Del Sol Environmental Science

Size

Of the 30 elementary schools in Socorro ISD, Vista Del Sol Environmental Science is the 26th largest, with 1.1% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.4 miles away and have a median of 563 students, so Vista Del Sol Environmental Science 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 pre-K with 86 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 60, against an average of 72 per grade. This year grade 5 has 13% fewer students than kindergarten (60 against 69). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 86 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 93.3% of enrollment, about the same share as across Socorro ISD (91%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

84% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 71.1% across Socorro 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

Vista Del Sol Environmental Science has 32.51 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 505 students would have about 34.1 teachers, so Vista Del Sol Environmental Science has 1.6 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 Myrtle Cooper Elementary School, 0.7 miles away in the same district. There are 38 elementary schools within 5 miles and 74 within 10 miles.

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