CARSON EL

Set in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, CARSON EL is a reasonably sized elementary school, part of NORTHSIDE ISD. It educates 488 students across grades pre-K through 5.

NORTHSIDE ISD comprises 128 schools with combined enrollment of 100,435 students; CARSON EL is among them.

Demographically, CARSON EL logs that 74% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 20% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Bexar County as a whole is about 60% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting CARSON EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 37% of students at CARSON EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Bexar County (around 63%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CARSON EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 57.9%; this one delivers 47.9%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Bexar County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 CARSON EL is one.

The closest other public school is STEVENSON MIDDLE, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, CARSON EL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 47.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CARSON EL has contracted 17%, going from 586 students in 2018 to 488 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 64% to 74% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

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