CARVAJAL EL

Located at 225 ARIZONA ST, in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, CARVAJAL EL is a tight-knit K-5 school that instructs 328 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under SAN ANTONIO ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 37% below the state mean of about 519.

SAN ANTONIO ISD runs 100 schools in total, collectively educating 47,623 students. CARVAJAL EL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, CARVAJAL EL records that nearly all students (96%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 2% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting CARVAJAL EL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 98% 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 above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, CARVAJAL EL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 31.3%; this one comes in at 9.2%, -22.1 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Bexar County indicate 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. CARVAJAL EL is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).

The closest other public school is RHODES MIDDLE, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CARVAJAL EL at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 22.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 16%: 390 students in 2018 compared to 328 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

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