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ARLON R SEAY EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 46 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 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%.
On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Comal County at a glance
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