ALLEN EL

ALLEN EL, a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, overseen by NORTHSIDE ISD, works with 442 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

NORTHSIDE ISD runs 128 schools in total, collectively educating 100,435 students. ALLEN EL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ALLEN EL logs that 94% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school records 5% White. The wider county runs roughly 60% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.6:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Bexar County (around 63%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ALLEN EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.1%, the actual is 32.6%, a residual of -2.5 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Bexar County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. ALLEN EL is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).

RAYBURN MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ALLEN EL. On composite proficiency, ALLEN EL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 35.8%.

ALLEN EL operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 24%: 584 students in 2018 compared to 442 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.

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