📍 800 e Eistetter, Laredo, Webb County, 78041
Pierce el is a State/Public serving elementary age pupils, located in Laredo, Webb County. The school has 688 pupils enrolled. The Principal is Noralva Johnson. It is part of the Laredo Isd school district. It serves grades Pre-K–5 in an urban setting. The school employs 40.0 full-time-equivalent teachers, a student-teacher ratio of 17.2:1. 27% of students are proficient in reading. 17% are proficient in maths. Technology infrastructure includes fiber internet, campus-wide Wi-Fi, devices for students.
Pierce el enrolls 688 students across grades Pre-K–5. The student body is 47% male and 53% female. A teaching staff of 40.0 full-time-equivalent teachers supports the school, giving a student-teacher ratio of 17.2:1.
By race and ethnicity, the student body is 100% Hispanic or Latino.
| Race / ethnicity | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Hispanic or Latino | 688 | 100% |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data.
688 of the school's 688 students (100%) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Of these, 681 qualify for free lunch and 7 for a reduced price. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility is a widely used indicator of the share of students from lower-income households.
Pierce 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.
Pierce 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 688 students, Pierce el is close to the district average of about 676 students per school.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Proficiency based on state assessments.
Setting: City - Large