DE ZAVALA EL

DE ZAVALA EL is one of the modestly sized elementary campuss in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, operated by SAN ANTONIO ISD, with 388 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 25% smaller than the state mean of about 519.

Across the 100 schools in SAN ANTONIO ISD (47,623 students total), DE ZAVALA EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, DE ZAVALA EL logs that nearly all students (98%) are Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 60% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting DE ZAVALA EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 98% of students at DE ZAVALA EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Bexar County's rate of about 63%.

With demographic context factored in, DE ZAVALA EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.1%, the actual is 18.9%, a residual of -12.2 points.

Around the school, Bexar County reports that median household earnings sit near $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), DE ZAVALA EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is DAVID BARKLEY/FRANCISCO RUIZ EL, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DE ZAVALA EL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 22.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 35%: 600 students in 2018 compared to 388 in 2025.

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