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Enrollment
821
Elementary
DISTRICT 626 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BOERNE ISD·NCES 481071007055
Fair Oaks Ranch Elementary School
29085 RALPH FAIR RD, FAIR OAKS RANCH, TX 78015 · (830) 357-4800 · Bexar County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL821 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 89% of Texas public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.5:1
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.6:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
10%
85 students
DISTRICT 20% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 44 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 110 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 112 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 144 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 131 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 125 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 155 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (110) is 29% smaller than its 5th grade class (155).
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
77.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +44.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
67.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +17.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 67 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 44 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 17 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 49.0% | 28.0% | 16.0% | 7.0% |
| Mathematics | 35.0% | 32.0% | 20.0% | 13.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 77.0% | 67.0% |
| 2024-25 | 82.0% | 76.0% |
| 2023-24 | 86.0% | 76.0% |
| 2022-23 | 75.0% | 67.0% |
| 2021-22 | 91.0% | 91.0% |
| 2020-21 | 33.0% | 50.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
77.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.3%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 78% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Fair Oaks Ranch Elementary School
Fair Oaks Ranch Elementary School's state test result (77.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fair Oaks Ranch Elementary School this school | 821 | 10.4% | 77.8% |
| Baranoff Elementary School AUSTIN | 810 | 14.1% | 58.3% |
| Travis Elementary School HOUSTON | 762 | 13.5% | 70.1% |
| Walnut Springs Elementary School DRIPPING SPRINGS | 941 | 12.1% | 62.6% |
| Stewart Elementary School MONTGOMERY | 914 | 9.1% | 82.5% |
| Woodridge Elementary School SAN ANTONIO | 833 | 12.8% | 61.6% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Fair Oaks Ranch Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Bexar County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 77.8% | #125 of 4,401 | #3 of 313 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.0% | #527 of 4,466 ▼ 294 | #18 of 317 ▼ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 77.0% | #371 of 4,466 ▼ 152 | #16 of 317 ▼ 8 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.0pp | #2,672 of 3,998 | #180 of 282 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 821 | #380 of 4,938 | #19 of 346 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.5:1 | #3,624 of 4,622 | #239 of 314 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.3% | #2,282 of 4,628 | #102 of 314 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 10.4% | #4,646 of 4,789 | #323 of 327 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.1% | #1,331 of 2,838 | #109 of 192 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
821
+172 (+27%) vs 2020
+21% since 2000-01, when it was 678
Student : Teacher
16.5:1
was 15.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 821 | 49.7 | 16.5:1 | 10% (85) |
| 2023-24 | 805 | 50.9 | 15.8:1 | 11% (92) |
| 2022-23 | 825 | 48.5 | 17.0:1 | 12% (95) |
| 2020-21 | 649 | 43 | 15.1:1 | 7% (47) |
| 2017-18 | 1,003 | 58.5 | 17.2:1 | 6% (63) |
| 2015-16 | 843 | 44 | 19.2:1 | 7% (58) |
| 2010-11 | 683 | 39 | 17.5:1 | 3% (20) |
| 2000-01 | 678 | 43 | 15.8:1 | 4% (28) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Fair Oaks Ranch Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (1,003 to 821); teachers down 15% (58.5 to 49.7).
About Fair Oaks Ranch Elementary School
Fair Oaks Ranch Elementary School is a high-enrollment elementary school. Its address is in FAIR OAKS RANCH, Texas. It reports enrollment of 821 students in pre-K through 5. The school is 58% bigger than the average for elementary schools in Texas.
Fair Oaks Ranch Elementary School belongs to BOERNE ISD, a district of 13 schools and 11,101 students.
About 64% of the student body at Fair Oaks Ranch Elementary School is White. Enrollment also includes 28% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, and 3% Asian. Among people living in Bexar County, the White share is about 42%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 51%.
Its ratio of 16.5:1 is based on 49.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in Texas have an average ratio of 15.1:1. In all, 10% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Bexar County average 63%.
On the allk12 Grade, Fair Oaks Ranch Elementary School lands at A, ahead of 89% of Texas public elementary schools.
Fair Oaks Ranch Elementary School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Texas schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 77.8% and a predicted 69.3%.
American Community Survey estimates for Bexar County show that the median household earns about $72,341 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 32%, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Bexar County has 638 public schools with about 368,487 students, including Fair Oaks Ranch Elementary School.
Van Raub Elementary School, about 2.1 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, 3 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, Fair Oaks Ranch Elementary School ranks 1st on average proficiency.
Federal data place Fair Oaks Ranch Elementary School in the Rural: Fringe locale, which means it is in rural territory close to an urban area.
In 2020-21, Fair Oaks Ranch Elementary School enrolled 649 students. By 2024-25, that number had grown to 821. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 15.1:1; by 2024-25 it was 16.5:1.
This page is set up for the Fair Oaks Ranch Elementary School community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Bexar County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,067,341
Census ACS
Median income
$72,341
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
638
368,487 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in BOERNE ISD
- Boerne - Samuel V Champion High SchoolHigh · 2,067 students
- Boerne High SchoolHigh · 1,494 students
- Boerne Middle SouthMiddle · 909 students
- Boerne Middle NorthMiddle · 863 students
- Voss Middle SchoolMiddle · 764 students
- Van Raub Elementary SchoolElementary · 759 students
Other schools in FAIR OAKS RANCH
- Van Raub Elementary SchoolElementary · 759 students
Nearby schools
- Van Raub Elementary School2.1 mi · 759
- Aue Elementary School4.1 mi · 530
- Leon Springs Elementary School4.5 mi · 410
- Boerne Middle South5.2 mi · 909
- Kendall Elementary School5.2 mi · 562
- Viola Wilson Elementary School5.3 mi · 473
Frequently asked questions
About Fair Oaks Ranch Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Fair Oaks Ranch Elementary School?
Fair Oaks Ranch Elementary School enrolls approximately 821 students in grades PK-05.
Is Fair Oaks Ranch Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Fair Oaks Ranch Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Fair Oaks Ranch Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Fair Oaks Ranch Elementary School is approximately 16.5:1 (50 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Fair Oaks Ranch Elementary School?
At Fair Oaks Ranch Elementary School, the student body is approximately 64% White, 28% Hispanic, 1% Black, 3% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Fair Oaks Ranch Elementary School?
Fair Oaks Ranch Elementary School is overseen by BOERNE ISD in Bexar County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.