📍 1208 Market, Laredo, Webb County, 78040
Heights el is a State/Public serving elementary age pupils, located in Laredo, Webb County. The school has 534 pupils enrolled. The Principal is Adriana Padilla. It is part of the Laredo Isd school district. It serves grades Pre-K–5 in an urban setting. The school employs 30.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, a student-teacher ratio of 17.4:1. 42% of students are proficient in reading. 37% are proficient in maths. Technology infrastructure includes fiber internet, campus-wide Wi-Fi, devices for students.
Heights el enrolls 534 students across grades Pre-K–5. The student body is 51% male and 49% female. A teaching staff of 30.7 full-time-equivalent teachers supports the school, giving a student-teacher ratio of 17.4:1.
By race and ethnicity, the student body is 99% Hispanic or Latino and <1% White.
| Race / ethnicity | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Hispanic or Latino | 531 | 99% |
| White | 3 | <1% |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data.
521 of the school's 534 students (98%) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Of these, 509 qualify for free lunch and 12 for a reduced price. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility is a widely used indicator of the share of students from lower-income households.
Heights el is located in an urban setting (NCES locale: City, Large). The school runs a schoolwide Title I program, which provides federal funding to support students from low-income families. For civic and policy purposes, the school sits in congressional district TX At-Large (non-voting delegate), state senate district 21, state house district 42.
Heights el is one of 30 schools in LAREDO ISD, based in LAREDO, Texas. The district serves 20,271 students district-wide and employs 1,415 full-time-equivalent teachers. With 534 students, Heights el is smaller than the district average of about 676 students per school.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Proficiency based on state assessments.
Setting: City - Large