CARNAHAN EL

As a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, CARNAHAN EL enrolls 528 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under NORTHSIDE ISD.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, CARNAHAN EL records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 18% White, 16% Asian, 12% multiracial, 7% Black. That is noticeably less Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.2:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Bexar County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CARNAHAN EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 31.3%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Bexar County) reports that median household income runs about $72,341, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. CARNAHAN EL is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).

ALTERNATIVE EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CARNAHAN EL. On composite proficiency, CARNAHAN EL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 47.5%.

CARNAHAN EL operates from an inner-city location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 10%: 586 students in 2018 compared to 528 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment shrank from 56% to 47% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 today.

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