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What's one thing BEARD EL gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
499
Elementary
DISTRICT 545 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORTHSIDE ISD·NCES 483312009471
Beard Elementary School
8725 SONOMA PKWY, HELOTES, TX 78023 · (210) 397-6600 · Bexar County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL499 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
12%
60 students
DISTRICT 54% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 18 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 64 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 56 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 64 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 89 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 100 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 108 | 22% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is 41% smaller than its 5th grade class (108).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
77.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +20.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
70.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +0.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 70 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 20 points since 2020, while math scores have held steady.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 50.0% | 27.0% | 14.0% | 9.0% |
| Mathematics | 36.0% | 34.0% | 19.0% | 11.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 77.0% | 70.0% |
| 2024-25 | 83.0% | 76.0% |
| 2023-24 | 78.0% | 73.0% |
| 2022-23 | 80.0% | 87.0% |
| 2021-22 | 79.0% | 79.0% |
| 2020-21 | 57.0% | 70.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
71.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.5%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Beard Elementary School
Beard Elementary School's state test result (71.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beard Elementary School this school | 499 | 12.0% | 71.7% |
| Blattman Elementary School SAN ANTONIO | 492 | 12.2% | 70.5% |
| Eleanor Kolitz Hebrew Language Academy SAN ANTONIO | 486 | 12.8% | 72.2% |
| Aue Elementary School SAN ANTONIO | 530 | 14.2% | 72.7% |
| Wilderness Oak Elementary School SAN ANTONIO | 603 | 21.4% | 75.7% |
| Judy Rucker Elementary School PROSPER | 681 | 13.2% | 57.0% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Beard Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Bexar County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.7% | #272 of 4,401 | #12 of 313 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #430 of 4,466 ▼ 186 | #14 of 317 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 77.0% | #393 of 4,466 ▼ 192 | #18 of 317 ▼ 11 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -10.0pp | #355 of 3,998 | #33 of 282 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 499 | #2,563 of 4,938 | #180 of 346 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #1,407 of 4,622 | #105 of 314 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.8% | #994 of 4,628 | #28 of 314 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 12.0% | #4,610 of 4,789 | #322 of 327 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -30.0% | #507 of 2,838 | #40 of 192 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
499
-160 (-24%) vs 2020
-51% since 2010-11, when it was 1,020
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 16.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 499 | 36 | 13.9:1 | 12% (60) |
| 2023-24 | 559 | 32.5 | 17.2:1 | 16% (87) |
| 2022-23 | 590 | 36 | 16.4:1 | 15% (86) |
| 2020-21 | 659 | 39 | 16.9:1 | 11% (73) |
| 2017-18 | 713 | 42.8 | 16.7:1 | 9% (65) |
| 2015-16 | 806 | 49 | 16.4:1 | 7% (55) |
| 2010-11 | 1,020 | 57 | 17.9:1 | 5% (46) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Beard Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 30% (713 to 499); teachers down 16% (42.8 to 36).
About Beard Elementary School
Beard Elementary School is a public mid-sized elementary school in HELOTES, Texas. The school runs pre-K through 5 and enrolls 499 students.
Beard Elementary School falls under NORTHSIDE ISD, which has 127 schools enrolling 100,208 students.
The largest group at Beard Elementary School is Hispanic students, at 49%. The school is also 30% White, 11% Asian, 5% multiracial, and 4% Black. That is lower than the 60% Hispanic share among all Bexar County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 65%.
There are about 13.9 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Beard Elementary School, which has 36. Elementary schools in Texas average 15.1:1, 1.2 more students per teacher than here. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Beard Elementary School is about 12%. Public schools in Bexar County average 63%.
Test results at Beard Elementary School are 3.1 points above what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (71.7% actual, 68.5% predicted).
In the surrounding county, Bexar County, the median household earns about $72,341 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 32%, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Counting Beard Elementary School, Bexar County has 638 public schools.
The closest school to Beard Elementary School is Garcia Middle School, located about 0.6 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Beard Elementary School. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Beard Elementary School is 2nd of 9 on proficiency.
Beard Elementary School falls in the City: Large locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 499, from 659 in 2020-21. The number of students per teacher dropped from 16.9 to 13.9 over 4 years.
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Bexar County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,067,341
Census ACS
Median income
$72,341
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
638
368,487 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NORTHSIDE ISD
- Brennan High SchoolHigh · 2,965 students
- Harlan High SchoolHigh · 2,778 students
- Clark High SchoolHigh · 2,750 students
- Taft High SchoolHigh · 2,670 students
- Brandeis High SchoolHigh · 2,657 students
- Marshall High SchoolHigh · 2,634 students
Other schools in HELOTES
- O'Connor High SchoolHigh · 2,535 students
- Great Hearts InvictusCombined · 918 students
- Kuentz Elementary SchoolElementary · 517 students
- Los Reyes Elementary SchoolElementary · 438 students
- Helotes Elementary SchoolElementary · 316 students
Other Beard Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Beard Elementary. Beard Elementary School is the largest of the 3.
- Beard Elementary SchoolChicago, IL · 327 students
- BEARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLFORT SMITH, AR · 297 students
Nearby schools
- Garcia Middle School0.6 mi · 1,360
- Brandeis High School1.3 mi · 2,657
- Stinson Middle School1.3 mi · 898
- Great Hearts Invictus1.8 mi · 918
- May Elementary School2.0 mi · 426
- Steubing Elementary School2.1 mi · 436
Frequently asked questions
About Beard Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Beard Elementary School?
Beard Elementary School enrolls approximately 499 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Beard Elementary School serve?
Beard Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Beard Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Beard Elementary School is approximately 13.9:1 (36 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Beard Elementary School?
Beard Elementary School reports a student body of 30% White, 49% Hispanic, 4% Black, 11% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Beard Elementary School in?
Beard Elementary School is part of NORTHSIDE ISD.
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