Hidalgo Park El, Pharr TX - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Hidalgo Park El

Hidalgo Park Elementary serves prekindergarten through fifth grade in Pharr, a city in the Rio Grande Valley. The school has a small enrollment for its grade band, with students spread across early grades and upper elementary. Nearly all students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic, reflecting both the school's location and broader demographic patterns of the region. One student identifies as white.

The school's performance across state testing shows a split profile. In math, results are notably stronger. Students in fourth grade show solid proficiency, while older fifth graders tested in English performed at a meaningful level overall. Math approaches (broad competency) is strong across the school. In English language arts, the picture is weaker. Third and fourth grade proficiency rates in reading and writing are substantially lower, and fifth graders taking the test in Spanish also show low proficiency. Science, by contrast, showed full proficiency for fifth graders taking the assessment in English.

Within the Hidalgo County district comparison set, Hidalgo Park's overall proficiency index places it in the top quartile among county schools. This reflects strength in math and science that outweighs the softer ELA results. A parent may want to look into further detail with the school about the specific factors shaping reading performance in the lower grades and what targeted support exists there, as well as the composition of the Spanish-language testing cohort in grades five, which was quite small.

The school offers music as part of its arts program. No data was available on staffing, attendance, or chronic absenteeism. Special education identification and English learner enrollment counts were not reported.

Housing in the Pharr area is affordable relative to national benchmarks, with median home values and monthly rents well below state and national averages. This affordability context reflects the economic and demographic character of the South Texas border region.

Hidalgo ISD, the school's parent district, held a bond election in May 2024 proposing funding for a new technical and career training center, an agriculture facility, and athletic improvements, with a stated impact on the local property tax rate. The district followed with another bond election in 2025 that passed, representing a committed capital investment in facilities. These decisions affect both the physical infrastructure available to schools and the tax obligations of property owners in the district, a meaningful consideration for families evaluating long-term residency and school choice.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 356%

School 56% · District 75% · ▼ 19 pts below district

▲ 16 pts above state median · ▲ 19 pts above county median

Grade 482%

School 82% · District 67% · ▲ 15 pts above district

▲ 41 pts above state median · ▲ 36 pts above county median

Grade 540%

School 40% · District 31% · ▲ 9 pts above district

▼ 1 pts below state median · even with county median

English language arts

Grade 336%

School 36% · District 39% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▼ 10 pts below state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

Grade 436%

School 36% · District 60% · ▼ 24 pts below district

▼ 13 pts below state median · ▼ 15 pts below county median

Grade 530%

School 30% · District 48% · ▼ 18 pts below district

▼ 24 pts below state median · ▼ 24 pts below county median

Science

Grade 5100%

School 100% · District 75% · ▲ 25 pts above district

▲ 77 pts above state median · ▲ 74 pts above county median

This schoolHIDALGO ISD, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

Mathematics

Grade 4Lower-income82%Higher-income80%2 pp gap