BIG COUNTRY EL

BIG COUNTRY EL is one of the moderately sized elementary-level communitys in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, overseen by SOUTHWEST ISD, with 660 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 27% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

BIG COUNTRY EL is one of 18 schools operated by SOUTHWEST ISD, a district that caters to 14,833 students overall.

Looking at the student body, BIG COUNTRY EL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (85%). Other groups include 7% White, 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 60% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, BIG COUNTRY EL has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 71% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BIG COUNTRY EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 43.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.2%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Bexar County indicate the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Bexar County runs 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), of which BIG COUNTRY EL is one.

FRANCIS R SCOBEE 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, BIG COUNTRY EL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 42.7%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BIG COUNTRY EL has showed little movement, going from 665 students in 2018 to 660 in 2025.

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