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What's one thing CABLE EL gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
392
Elementary
DISTRICT 545 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORTHSIDE ISD·NCES 483312003689
Cable Elementary School
1706 PINN RD, SAN ANTONIO, TX 78227 · (210) 397-2850 · Bexar County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL392 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
10.4:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
370 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 | 36 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 50 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 57 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 57 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 71 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 65 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 56 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (50) is 11% smaller than its 5th grade class (56).
Student demographics
15%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
31.0%
TX avg 54.5% . -7.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
31.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +6.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 31 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are down about 7 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 6 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 12.0% | 19.0% | 26.0% | 43.0% |
| Mathematics | 9.0% | 22.0% | 27.0% | 42.0% |
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 | 31.0% | 31.0% |
| 2024-25 | 39.0% | 34.0% |
| 2023-24 | 29.0% | 29.0% |
| 2022-23 | 31.0% | 45.0% |
| 2021-22 | 51.0% | 28.0% |
| 2020-21 | 38.0% | 25.0% |
% 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
30.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.4%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% 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 Cable Elementary School
Cable Elementary School's state test result (30.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cable Elementary School this school | 392 | 94.4% | 30.8% |
| Morales Elementary School PASADENA | 379 | 93.9% | 48.2% |
| Janowski Elementary School HOUSTON | 395 | 94.7% | 47.0% |
| Pickle Elementary School AUSTIN | 407 | 95.3% | 23.4% |
| Langford Elementary School AUSTIN | 391 | 94.9% | 15.7% |
| Chapel Hill Preparatory-A Personalized Lrning School DALLAS | 404 | 94.3% | 37.8% |
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 Cable Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Bexar County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.8% | #3,589 of 4,401 | #204 of 313 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 31.0% | #3,861 of 4,466 ▼ 465 | #230 of 317 ▼ 44 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.0% | #4,262 of 4,466 ▼ 650 | #285 of 317 ▼ 78 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -7.0pp | #535 of 3,998 | #47 of 282 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 392 | #3,551 of 4,938 | #251 of 346 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.4:1 | #61 of 4,622 | #7 of 314 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 15.0% | #3,924 of 4,628 | #244 of 314 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.4% | #580 of 4,789 | #46 of 327 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -42.3% | #131 of 2,838 | #13 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
392
-96 (-20%) vs 2020
-31% since 1990-91, when it was 572
Student : Teacher
10.4:1
was 11.9:1
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 | 392 | 37.5 | 10.4:1 | 94% (370) |
| 2023-24 | 413 | 39.5 | 10.4:1 | 93% (386) |
| 2022-23 | 455 | 37 | 12.3:1 | 98% (446) |
| 2020-21 | 488 | 41 | 11.9:1 | 95% (466) |
| 2017-18 | 679 | 53.3 | 12.7:1 | 93% (632) |
| 2015-16 | 765 | 56 | 13.7:1 | 96% (734) |
| 2010-11 | 672 | 47 | 14.3:1 | 95% (640) |
| 2000-01 | 478 | 36 | 13.3:1 | 93% (446) |
| 1990-91 | 572 | 32 | 17.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cable Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 42% (679 to 392); teachers down 30% (53.3 to 37.5).
About Cable Elementary School
A small elementary school in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Cable Elementary School is part of NORTHSIDE ISD. It had 392 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 5. Elementary schools in Texas average about 519 students, which makes this school 24% below average.
Cable Elementary School is one school in a 127-school district, NORTHSIDE ISD, which enrolls 100,208 students.
The share of students at Cable Elementary School who are Hispanic is 92%. Other groups include 4% Black and 3% White. By comparison, Bexar County residents are about 60% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 15, compared with 70 nationally.
On staff are 37.5 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 10.4:1. Statewide, elementary schools in Texas average 15.1:1. Cable Elementary School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 94%. Public schools in Bexar County average 63%.
The model predicts 33.4% for a school in Texas with Cable Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Cable Elementary School posts 30.8%.
The county, Bexar County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $72,341, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 32% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. The county's public schools total 638, with about 368,487 students.
Of the public schools around it, Cable Elementary School is closest to Jones Middle School, about 0.6 miles away. Cable Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Cable Elementary School's average proficiency of 30.8% compares with 29.9% for its nearest scored neighbors.
The NCES locale for Cable Elementary School is City: Large, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's enrollment fell 20% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (10.4:1) than in 2020-21 (11.9:1).
People can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates and other school topics. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 SAN ANTONIO
- Reagan High SchoolHigh · 3,403 students
- East Central High SchoolHigh · 3,362 students
- Johnson High SchoolHigh · 3,196 students
- Brennan High SchoolHigh · 2,965 students
- Harlan High SchoolHigh · 2,778 students
- Clark High SchoolHigh · 2,750 students
Nearby schools
- Jones Middle School0.6 mi · 1,035
- Hull Elementary School0.7 mi · 441
- Jubilee School of Innovation and Arts1.0 mi · 69
- Jubilee Westwood1.0 mi · 240
- Jay High School1.1 mi · 2,118
- Westwood Terrace Elementary School1.1 mi · 415
Frequently asked questions
About Cable Elementary SchoolHow large is Cable Elementary School?
Cable Elementary School enrolls approximately 392 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Cable Elementary School serve?
Cable Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Cable Elementary School?
Approximately 10.4:1 students per teacher at Cable Elementary School.
How diverse is Cable Elementary School?
Cable Elementary School reports a student body of 3% White, 92% Hispanic, 4% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Cable Elementary School?
Cable Elementary School is overseen by NORTHSIDE ISD in Bexar County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.