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E H GILBERT EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 14 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 19 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About E H GILBERT EL
E H GILBERT EL is an elementary-level community of mid-sized scale in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, run under HARLANDALE ISD, caters to 633 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so E H GILBERT EL sits 22% larger than that benchmark.
E H GILBERT EL is one of 21 schools operated by HARLANDALE ISD, a district that caters to 11,564 students overall.
In terms of who attends, E H GILBERT EL records that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The wider county runs roughly 60% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, The school lists 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting E H GILBERT EL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 94% of students at E H GILBERT EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Bexar County's rate of about 63%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, E H GILBERT EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 23.6%.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Bexar County) logs that median household earnings sit near $72,341, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Bexar County runs 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), of which E H GILBERT EL is one.
WRIGHT EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 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), E H GILBERT EL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 31.2%.
The school occupies a downtown site.
Over the past 7-year window. E H GILBERT EL's enrollment has grew 13% since 2018, when it stood at 558 (now 633).
On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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