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ARLON R SEAY EL
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ARLON R SEAY EL
ARLON R SEAY EL operates as an average-sized elementary-level community in SPRING BRANCH, Texas, overseen by COMAL ISD. Current enrollment sits at 623 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 20% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.
Within COMAL ISD, which oversees 37 schools and 29,839 students, ARLON R SEAY EL is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, ARLON R SEAY EL lists that 48% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 46% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 40% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Comal County (around 32%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, ARLON R SEAY EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.6%, the actual is 54.4%, a residual of -2.2 points.
In the surrounding community, Comal County reports that the typical household earns roughly $101,889 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Comal County runs 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,653 students), of which ARLON R SEAY EL is one.
SPRING BRANCH MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ARLON R SEAY EL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 74.1%.
ARLON R SEAY EL operates from an outlying location.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ARLON R SEAY EL has climbed 65%, going from 378 students in 2018 to 623 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 74% to 46%.
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