📍 200 S Mayberry, Mission, Hidalgo County, 78572
Castro el is a State/Public serving elementary age pupils, located in Mission, Hidalgo County. The school has 360 pupils enrolled. The Principal is Araceli Escalona. It is part of the Mission Cisd school district. It serves grades Pre-K–5 in an urban setting. The school employs 25.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, a student-teacher ratio of 14.3:1. 22% of students are proficient in reading. 12% are proficient in maths. Technology infrastructure includes campus-wide Wi-Fi, devices for students.
Castro el enrolls 360 students across grades Pre-K–5. The student body is 55% male and 45% female. A teaching staff of 25.3 full-time-equivalent teachers supports the school, giving a student-teacher ratio of 14.3:1.
By race and ethnicity, the student body is 99% Hispanic or Latino and <1% White.
| Race / ethnicity | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Hispanic or Latino | 358 | 99% |
| White | 2 | <1% |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data.
343 of the school's 360 students (95%) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Of these, 338 qualify for free lunch and 5 for a reduced price. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility is a widely used indicator of the share of students from lower-income households.
Castro el is located in an urban setting (NCES locale: City, Small). 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 20, state house district 36.
Castro el is one of 24 schools in MISSION CISD, based in MISSION, Texas. The district serves 13,765 students district-wide and employs 971 full-time-equivalent teachers. With 360 students, Castro el is smaller than the district average of about 574 students per school.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Proficiency based on state assessments.
Setting: City - Small