The top reported proficiency rate is 29% in English language arts. The lowest is 24% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Uvalde El
Uvalde Elementary serves third and fourth graders in Uvalde CISD, sitting on Dean Street in Uvalde, Texas, a county-seat city roughly an hour and a half west of San Antonio. The school is part of a district that has been navigating some of the most difficult circumstances of any in the state over the past several years, and that context shapes nearly every aspect of what parents encounter here.
The student body is predominantly Hispanic, with a very small share of white students and only a handful from other backgrounds. A large majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, placing this in the range typical of many lower-income Texas elementary schools. Data on English learner enrollment and special education participation were not available in this dataset.
On the Texas STAAR assessment, third-grade results in both reading and math came in well below the statewide midpoint, and fourth-grade results, while modestly higher, remain low. Across the tested subjects and grades, the school's combined proficiency sits below the midpoint among districts in Uvalde County. These are real numbers a parent should weigh. They indicate that a majority of students at each grade level are not yet reading or doing math at the state's proficiency threshold, and a parent would do well to ask the school directly about its current intervention supports, reading instruction model, and how it identifies students who need extra help.
The school serves only grades three and four, so there is no graduation rate to report and the grade band explains that absence entirely.
Uvalde CISD has been under sustained strain since the May 2022 shooting at Robb Elementary. Publicly reported coverage describes Legacy Elementary, the newly built replacement campus, opening in the fall of 2025 with extensive security features, including bullet-resistant windows and key-card classroom access to individual classrooms. Uvalde Elementary on Dean Street is a separate campus, but the district-wide security investments and the ongoing community recovery are part of the environment every family in the district lives with.
On the district finance side, voters rejected a tax rate election in late 2024 that would have raised operating revenue, and the district responded by cutting its budget for the current school year. The practical effect on staffing levels, support staff, and program availability at individual campuses was not detailed in available data, but it is a real constraint parents should ask about. Separately, the district's bond debt was fully retired, which reduced the debt-service portion of the property tax bill for homeowners, a modest offset.
The local housing market in Uvalde County sits well below state and national median home values, making it among the more affordable places to own in Texas. Values have edged slightly downward in the most recent year-over-year data. Rental price data was not available for this area. The city's population has been roughly flat to slightly declining, and new residential construction is modest. Uvalde functions as a regional hub for a wide rural area, with health care, education, and retail as the main employment sectors. Downtown has a walkable historic core with a preserved Main Street, a public library that doubles as a regional archive, and parks along the Leona River, but most daily life outside that district is car-dependent.
For a family choosing where to enroll a third or fourth grader, the clearest considerations at Uvalde Elementary are the current academic proficiency levels, which are genuinely low and warrant direct conversation with the school about what support structures are in place, alongside the broader district context of budget tightening and the still-ongoing community recovery from a tragedy that reshaped this school system in ways that go beyond any single metric.
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