Skip to content
BCER

Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 5

Zeferino Farias Elementary, Alamo, TX

CEP schoolZeferino Farias Elementary is a public elementary school in Alamo, part of Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD. It enrolled 520 students in 2024-25, with 16.2 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "ZEFERINO FARIAS EL".

Enrollment and teachers

Students
520
Teachers (FTE)
32.0
Students per teacher
16.2
Grades
PK to 5

This school's ratio is 1.9 higher than the district figure of 14.3. The Texas average across schools is 15.1. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school16.2
District14.3
Texas15.1
United States15.3

School details

Address
1100 W Acacia St, Alamo, TX 78516
Phone
(956)354-2760
District
Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD
County
Hidalgo County
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Locale
Suburb: Large
NCES school ID
483486003925
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
505
Reduced-price lunch
0
Free or reduced-price lunch
50597.1% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other elementary schools in Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD

Elementary schools elsewhere in Alamo

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.