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A LEAL JR MIDDLE
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 34 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 11 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 15 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About A LEAL JR MIDDLE
A LEAL JR MIDDLE is a junior high of small scale in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, one of the schools within HARLANDALE ISD, educateing 499 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 22% leaner than typical.
HARLANDALE ISD comprises 21 schools with combined enrollment of 11,564 students; A LEAL JR MIDDLE is among them.
Demographically, A LEAL JR MIDDLE logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (98%). By comparison, Bexar County as a whole is about 60% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the resource side, On paper, A LEAL JR MIDDLE has 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.3:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 93% of students at A LEAL JR MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Bexar County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, A LEAL JR MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.4%, the actual is 34.1%, a residual of +0.7 points.
In the broader community, Bexar County reports that the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Bexar County's 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), A LEAL JR MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is COLLIER EL, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), A LEAL JR MIDDLE ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 28.2%.
The campus sits in a city-core setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at A LEAL JR MIDDLE has decreased 39%, going from 822 students in 2018 to 499 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 today.
Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Bexar County at a glance
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