Public school / Primary
Jefferson El
Harlingen, Texas
- NCES ID
- 482253002286
- District
- Harlingen Cisd
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Jefferson El is a public primary school in Harlingen, Texas, run by Harlingen Cisd. It enrols 249 students — the 72386th largest of 9,692 public schools in Texas.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
249
Teachers
19.0
Students per teacher
13.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
97.6%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Harlingen Cisd
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Harlingen H S1,942 students
- 2Harlingen H S - South1,571 students
- 3Dr Abraham P Cano Freshman Academy1,188 students
- 4Treasure Hills El858 students
- 5Gutierrez Middle819 students
- 6Memorial Middle751 students
- 7Moises Vela Middle742 students
- 8Lee H Means El734 students
- Enrollment−52.1%
- Teachers−45.7%
- Students per teacher−10.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+37.9%
Where this sits
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory