DOUGLASS EL

DOUGLASS EL is a minimally staffed K-5 school in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, part of SAN ANTONIO ISD. The school educates 169 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 67% below the state mean of about 519.

DOUGLASS EL is one of 100 schools operated by SAN ANTONIO ISD, a district that teaches 47,623 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, DOUGLASS EL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (88%). The remainder is composed of 7% Black, 4% White. 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, On paper, DOUGLASS EL has 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.0:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 96% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Bexar County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, DOUGLASS EL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 32.8%; this one comes in at 15.4%, -17.4 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Bexar County) reports that median household income runs about $72,341, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bexar County runs 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), of which DOUGLASS EL is one.

HERFF EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DOUGLASS EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 35.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 6 years. Looking back 6 years, enrollment at DOUGLASS EL has contracted 57%, going from 396 students in 2018 to 169 in 2024. Over the same period, the Hispanic share shrank from 93% to 88%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 today.

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