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A LEAL JR MIDDLE
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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.
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