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CAMBRIDGE EL
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CAMBRIDGE EL
CAMBRIDGE EL operates as a substantial elementary campus in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, run under ALAMO HEIGHTS ISD. Current enrollment sits at 806 students spanning grades 1 through 5. That puts it 55% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.
ALAMO HEIGHTS ISD runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 4,749 students. CAMBRIDGE EL is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, CAMBRIDGE EL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 44% White, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Bexar County as a whole is about 60% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully less Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the resource side, On paper, CAMBRIDGE EL has 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting CAMBRIDGE EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 28% of students at CAMBRIDGE EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Bexar County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
With demographic context factored in, CAMBRIDGE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.7%, the actual is 60.1%, a residual of -1.6 points.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Bexar County indicate the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Bexar County runs 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), of which CAMBRIDGE EL is one.
ALAMO HEIGHTS H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, CAMBRIDGE EL comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 58.0%.
The campus sits in a residential setting.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 822 students in 2018 compared to 806 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 51% to 44% across the same window.
Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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