ELM CREEK EL

ELM CREEK EL operates as a sizable K-5 school in ATASCOSA, Texas, run under SOUTHWEST ISD. Current enrollment sits at 805 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 55% bigger than typical.

ELM CREEK EL is one of 18 schools operated by SOUTHWEST ISD, a district that educates 14,833 students overall.

On the student-mix side, ELM CREEK EL records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (91%). Beyond that, the school records 8% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

On the resource side, On paper, ELM CREEK EL has 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 78% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Bexar County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, ELM CREEK EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.0%, the actual is 36.3%, a residual of -3.7 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Bexar County put median household income runs about $72,341, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. ELM CREEK EL is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).

RONALD E MCNAIR MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ELM CREEK EL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.4%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ELM CREEK EL has expanded 17%, going from 690 students in 2018 to 805 in 2025.

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