
A.N. Rico Elementary
A. N. Rico serves a large rural area of
(Tony) Rico Elementary School was opened in the fall of 1994 and celebrated its grand opening in the spring of 1995 with the appearance of Vice-President Al Gore and his Yale college roommate, actor Tommy Lee Jones.


WELCOME to the 24-25 School Year!
If you have any questions about registration, please call the school, 969-6815. The information for Placement pickup is attached. Come by to pick up your child's bus/pickup tags and get his/her teacher's name and room number.

Rolando “Roli” is headed to Louisiana to go represent RGV Blue in the pony World Series. Good luck, Rolando! Go, Rockets!🚀


🚨 🚨 Attention all parents 🚨 🚨
Summer school classes have been cancelled for the rest of this week.
ACE program has also been cancelled for the rest of this week.
Summer school classes and ACE will resume on June 24th.
North Bridge Elementary
Airport Drive Elementary

Today our ACE students from Rico, Airport, and North Bridge were visited by our special friends from the Texas Department of Public Safety; Officers Anciso, Hernandez, and Lopez! 👮🏻👮🏻♂️
Our ACE students were able to listen to the many qualifications and benefits of being a Texas State Troopers. They not only were presented a video, but the officers kindly brought our students uniform gear for them to try on and experience the everyday life of a State Trooper! 💙 We finished off our presentation with a close up of their patrol vehicles.
We’d like to send a huge thank you to our Local DPS State Troopers for all their hard work and commitment to our community! 🇺🇸 Our WISD ACE Students and Staff will hold this experience and memories forever.

Summer ACE is in full swing! Our Rico Rockets along with North Bridge and Airport students visited the Glady's Porter Zoo for their first field trip of the summer! 🦒🐒🦁
Students spent the morning exploring the zoo and learning all about the different animals all over the world! There were animals from Asia, Australia, and Africa! 😍
Students were able to sit down with a Zoo Keeper and learn facts about snakes and even got up close to touch one. 🐍 Our Summer Program continues this week with more jam packed activities and fun! 🎉🙌 North Bridge Elementary
SUMMER ACE PARENTS: Please check with your child on receiving the weekly newsletter being sent out with all information needed for the week. We have also included the POD 1 Summer ACE Remind Code; please join to stay informed and to be able to communicate with Coordinators.

Congratulations to the Weslaco Lady Panthers Softball team who are now state champions! One of our own Rico Rockets is a STATE CHAMP-Keira Soza!! Congratulations!! 🎉🎉 Great things happen to our Rico Rockets!!

Rico Rockets Senior Walk!! Congratulations to the Class of 2024!! 🎉👏🙌💜

💙Donuts for Dad 2024💙

NO SCHOOL ON MONDAY, MAY 27, 2024.

Friendly reminder, our ACE After School Program has come to an end for the academic year this week. There will be no after school next week. Please make arrangements for your students after school transportation.
Thank you parents and families for your support this year! Can’t wait to see what next year will bring. 💜

On behalf of our Coordinator, Mrs. Scobey-Calderon, we'd like to send a special shout-out to our Weslaco's Crumbl Cookie for their donation to our ACE Students and Staff this week. 🍪🚀🤎
Their delicious treats sure put a big smile on our student's faces! The perfect way to celebrate and end a fun and successful ACE Program for the academic school year! ✨💜

3rd grade students enjoyed a fun day celebrating their hard work throughout the year. They played at Harlon Block Sports Complex and had lunch at Peter Piper Pizza.

Rico Rockets ACE Flag Football team went out and competed at WISD ACE first annual Flag Football Tournament! 🏈 🏳️
We couldn’t be anymore proud of our athletes for showing up and coming into every game with a positive mindset, hard work, and great sportsmanship! 💜
Today we witnessed our student athletes, staff members, and campus parents come together and show what Rico Rockets is all about; leadership and teamwork. This is the first of many more things to come for our ACE Program and Athletes! 💫
Special thank you to our Coordinator Mrs. Scobey-Calderon, coaches Mr. Rivera and Mrs. Hernandez, and our assistant coaches Mrs. Zavala and Ms. Castillo for making sure our athletes were not only safe but filled with joy and enthusiasm! ♥️

Last Friday our amazing volunteers were recognized by our Parent & Family Engagement staff with a delicious luncheon & awards ceremony 🪇🌮❤️🪅It was a great way to honor volunteers across the district that helps support WISD🏆
We are so thankful to be surrounded by such a loving community! 🚀❤️ 🎉

Parents,
We need your vote for our new school theme! Please vote below:

🌊Splish, 🌊Splash we're having a blast at school!!
Make sure you come to school everyday you don't want to miss all the fun we'll be having. 🚀💛
Must be present at school everyday from 05/20 - 05/31 to participate. ⛱

On behalf of Rico Elementary we’d like to wish all the Mothers a HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY! May your day be filled with lots of love and hugs from your loved ones. 🫶🏼
Feliz día de las Madres de parte de todos en Rico Elementary. Que tengan un maravilloso día lleno de mucho amor y abrazos. 🫶🏼

Help us give a very heartfelt THANK YOU to the following people for making our Muffins with Mom a huge success.
❤️Ms. Ana Vallejo for bringing Mariachi Caballero for our mothers to enjoy.
❤️Mr. Adrian Garcia / Ritmo Mi Tierra for bringing his folkloric dancers to perform.
❤️Weslaco East Cheerleaders for helping us serve and greet parents.
❤️Our parent volunteers who made flowers for our mothers to receive.
❤️Our ACE program and Marines bakery for providing muffins.
THANK YOU ALL FOR MAKING OUR MUFFINS WITH MOM A HUGE SUCCESS. 🫶🏼❤️🚀

CONGRATULATIONS to all our new and returning cheerleaders & mascot! 🖤✨ It was a great day at Rico Elementary 😍 We are so excited to kick off the upcoming academic school year! Welcome to our 2024-2025 Rico Rocket Cheer Squad!🚀🖤💜🖤🚀

Mrs. J. Ramirez and Mrs. J. Luna attended the Teacher of the Year luncheon today where Mrs. Ramirez was presented with a plaque as our 2023-2024 Teacher of the Year. ❤️🚀

Help us congratulate our AMAZING Nurses. They truly are superheroes who have the ability to heal all booboos with Bandaids, Neosporin and lots of LOVE! 🩹❤️🚀
THANK YOU Nurse Perez & Nurse Ramos for all that you do for our students.

Rico’s top 5 AR students of 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade attended the end of the year AR field trip! The students went to the Weslaco public library for a tour, learn about the resources the library offers, and the summer reading program so they can read all year long. They enjoyed lunch at Peter Piper Pizza and ended the day with ice cream! Congrats to our readers! 🏆📖🚀❤️

👏 Congratulations👏 to Arianna Lopez ⛹️♀️for getting 2nd place 🥈at the Elk’s Free Throw Contest! 🏀🏀