DAVID BARKLEY/FRANCISCO RUIZ EL

Set in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, DAVID BARKLEY/FRANCISCO RUIZ EL is a compact primary school, run under SAN ANTONIO ISD. It enrolls 355 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 32% smaller than typical.

SAN ANTONIO ISD comprises 100 schools with combined enrollment of 47,623 students; DAVID BARKLEY/FRANCISCO RUIZ EL is among them.

In terms of who attends, DAVID BARKLEY/FRANCISCO RUIZ EL shows that 90% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 5% Black, 3% White, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 60% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, DAVID BARKLEY/FRANCISCO RUIZ EL logs 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 97% 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 somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DAVID BARKLEY/FRANCISCO RUIZ EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.6%, the actual is 30.7%, a residual of -0.9 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Bexar County shows the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Bexar County's 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), DAVID BARKLEY/FRANCISCO RUIZ EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: EL DAEP, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DAVID BARKLEY/FRANCISCO RUIZ EL at 1st of 6; the average score across the group is 20.5%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 28%: 491 students in 2018 compared to 355 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged down from 95% to 90%. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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