BURKE EL

As a mid-tier K-5 school in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, BURKE EL enrolls 542 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under NORTHSIDE ISD.

NORTHSIDE ISD runs 128 schools in total, collectively educating 100,435 students. BURKE EL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, BURKE EL reports that nearly all students (88%) are Hispanic. The remainder looks like 10% White, 2% Black. By comparison, Bexar County as a whole is about 60% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, BURKE EL has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.3:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 65% of students at BURKE EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BURKE EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.7%; this one delivers 43.6%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Bexar County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Bexar County's 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), BURKE EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is NORTHWEST CROSSING EL, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BURKE EL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BURKE EL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 39.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BURKE EL has grew 11%, going from 490 students in 2018 to 542 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 83% to 88% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

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