ARNOLD EL

Set in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, ARNOLD EL is a medium-sized primary school, overseen by SAN ANTONIO ISD. It teaches 633 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 22% above the state mean of about 519.

SAN ANTONIO ISD comprises 100 schools with combined enrollment of 47,623 students; ARNOLD EL is among them.

On the student-mix side, ARNOLD EL shows that nearly all students (96%) are Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

On the resource side, On paper, ARNOLD EL has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting ARNOLD EL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Bexar County (around 63%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, ARNOLD EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.0%; this one delivers 28.1%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Bexar County) records that median household income runs about $72,341, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. ARNOLD EL is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).

COMPASS ROSE OPPORTUNITY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ARNOLD EL. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ARNOLD EL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 26.1%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ARNOLD EL has climbed 7%, going from 593 students in 2018 to 633 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 today.

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