CHARLES C BALL EL

CHARLES C BALL EL is a mid-tier elementary school in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, operated by SAN ANTONIO ISD. The school educates 543 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within SAN ANTONIO ISD, which oversees 100 schools and 47,623 students, CHARLES C BALL EL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, CHARLES C BALL EL logs that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 4% White, 3% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting CHARLES C BALL EL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Bexar County's rate of about 63%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CHARLES C BALL EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.2%, the actual is 24.3%, a residual of -7.9 points.

Across the wider 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. Across Bexar County's 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), CHARLES C BALL EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is HOT WELLS MIDDLE, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CHARLES C BALL EL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 23.8%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 7%: 584 students in 2018 compared to 543 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 today.

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