FRANK MADLA EL

FRANK MADLA EL is one of the cozy elementary schools in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, run under SOUTH SAN ANTONIO ISD, with 382 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so FRANK MADLA EL sits 26% smaller than that benchmark.

SOUTH SAN ANTONIO ISD comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 7,987 students; FRANK MADLA EL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, FRANK MADLA EL lists that 91% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 4% White, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 60% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting FRANK MADLA EL higher than the state norm the norm. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Bexar County's rate of about 63%.

With demographic context factored in, FRANK MADLA EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.2%; this one delivers 23.9%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Bexar County indicate median household earnings sit near $72,341, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Bexar County's 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), FRANK MADLA EL is one campus in the mix.

VIRGINIA ALLRED STACEY JR/SR H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FRANK MADLA EL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), FRANK MADLA EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 35.6%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at FRANK MADLA EL has shrank 28%, going from 533 students in 2018 to 382 in 2025.

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