Roberts El, San Benito TX - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Roberts El

Roberts Elementary serves pre-kindergarten through fifth grade in San Benito, a small city in the Rio Grande Valley about ten miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The school serves a student body that is overwhelmingly Hispanic and economically disadvantaged. A very large share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The school's enrollment spans early childhood through upper elementary grades.

State testing results from the most recent year show proficiency levels that are low across the board. In English language arts, fourth grade performed strongest, with less than half meeting or exceeding standards; third grade and fifth grade both showed proficiency around a quarter or fewer. In mathematics, results were similarly modest across grades three, four, and five, with proficiency rates in the low-to-mid range. Science proficiency in fifth grade was particularly weak. Across all subjects, the share of students reaching the "meets" or "masters" levels remains small, though a larger share reaches "approaches" standard in both math and English language arts.

Roberts Elementary sits in the bottom quartile for proficiency among districts in Cameron County, meaning its test results are notably lower than peers in the same county. A parent may want to look into the school's support structures and curriculum approach with the school directly, particularly what interventions are in place for students not yet meeting grade-level standards.

San Benito itself is a mix-character small city with a residential, family-and-retiree texture alongside a commercial core. The downtown area carries local character with taquerias, barbecue spots, and colorful murals. The city is nicknamed Resaca City for the waterway running through it and retains a strongly Mexican-influenced, small-town feel. Walkability is limited overall, with most retail concentrated along the Route 77 corridor, though the historic downtown offers the most pedestrian-scaled texture and the Heavin Resaca Trail greenway follows the waterway through the city center. The San Benito Consolidated Independent School District is historically the largest employer in the city. An industrial park just outside the city holds warehouses serving the Mexico trade, and the healthcare system in nearby Harlingen is another significant employer. San Benito sits in one of the fastest-growing regions in the country, with active new residential development and new construction tied to regional economic drivers including SpaceX Starbase about twenty miles away, a new Amazon logistics facility, and expanding liquefied natural gas infrastructure. Median home sale prices are below the Texas average, and the housing market has seen modest appreciation year-over-year. The public library downtown runs all-ages programming and recently launched a mobile library serving neighborhoods on a rotating schedule. The city's Parks and Recreation department oversees six public parks plus the greenway; no fixed-route municipal transit system was confirmed.

The district brief search did not yield information about recent strategic shifts or parent-relevant changes at the district level, so that picture remains incomplete here.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 323%

School 23% · District 41% · ▼ 18 pts below district

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

Grade 430%

School 30% · District 0% · ▲ 30 pts above district

▼ 11 pts below state median · ▼ 21 pts below county median

Grade 527%

School 27% · District 12% · ▲ 15 pts above district

▼ 14 pts below state median · ▼ 20 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 323%

School 23% · District 20% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▼ 23 pts below state median · ▼ 23 pts below county median

Grade 446%

School 46% · District 53% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▼ 3 pts below state median · ▼ 8 pts below county median

Grade 536%

School 36% · District 28% · ▲ 8 pts above district

▼ 18 pts below state median · ▼ 21 pts below county median

Science

Grade 54%

School 4% · District 0% · ▲ 4 pts above district

▼ 19 pts below state median · ▼ 22 pts below county median

This schoolSAN BENITO CISD, 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.