ESPARZA EL

ESPARZA EL, a mid-tier elementary school in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, one of the schools within NORTHSIDE ISD, teaches 462 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

NORTHSIDE ISD comprises 128 schools with combined enrollment of 100,435 students; ESPARZA EL is among them.

On demographics, ESPARZA EL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (95%). Other groups include 2% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

In terms of school funding signals, ESPARZA EL reports 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 84% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ESPARZA EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.1%, the actual is 32.4%, a residual of -4.7 points.

In the area at large, 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%. ESPARZA EL is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).

ROSS MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 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), ESPARZA EL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 31.7%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Looking at the recent track record. ESPARZA EL's enrollment has shrank 30% since 2018, when it stood at 656 (now 462). Class-load math has tightened: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.

On allk12, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.