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ADAMS HILL EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 13 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 18 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% 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 ADAMS HILL EL
ADAMS HILL EL is an elementary-level community of reasonably sized scale in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, operated by NORTHSIDE ISD, serveing 473 students in grades pre-K through 5.
ADAMS HILL EL is one of 128 schools operated by NORTHSIDE ISD, a district that instructs 100,435 students overall.
Demographically, ADAMS HILL EL records that nearly all students (81%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school logs 8% Black, 7% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 60% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the resource side, On paper, ADAMS HILL EL has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 84% of students are eligible 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ADAMS HILL EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 37.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 27.7%.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Bexar County indicate median household earnings sit near $72,341, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. ADAMS HILL EL is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).
The closest other public school is MICHAEL EL, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ADAMS HILL EL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 40.4%.
The campus sits in a city-core setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 8%: 515 students in 2018 compared to 473 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 13% to 7%. Class-load math has fell: from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.
Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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