GATES EL

GATES EL is an elementary-level community of micro-enrollment scale in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, part of SAN ANTONIO ISD, teacheing 158 students in grades pre-K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 70% smaller than typical.

Within SAN ANTONIO ISD, which oversees 100 schools and 47,623 students, GATES EL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, GATES EL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 76% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 22% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting GATES EL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Bexar County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, GATES EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.8%, the actual is 35.6%, a residual of +4.8 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Bexar County put the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, 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 GATES EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: M L KING ACADEMY, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GATES EL. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GATES EL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 27.5%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Looking at the recent track record. GATES EL's enrollment has fell 30% since 2018, when it stood at 226 (now 158). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 68% to 76%.

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