KELLY ACADEMY AT LOWELL

Located at 1026 THOMPSON PL, in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, KELLY ACADEMY AT LOWELL is a medium-sized K-5 school that instructs 497 students (grades pre-K through 8), operated by SAN ANTONIO ISD.

KELLY ACADEMY AT LOWELL is one of 100 schools operated by SAN ANTONIO ISD, a district that educates 47,623 students overall.

On demographics, KELLY ACADEMY AT LOWELL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (96%). The remainder comes out to 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 60% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, KELLY ACADEMY AT LOWELL shows 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 95% of students at KELLY ACADEMY AT LOWELL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Bexar County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, KELLY ACADEMY AT LOWELL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 46.2%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Bexar County shows median household earnings sit near $72,341, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Bexar County's 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), KELLY ACADEMY AT LOWELL is one campus in the mix.

LOWELL 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. On composite proficiency, KELLY ACADEMY AT LOWELL comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 17.5%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Looking at the recent track record. KELLY ACADEMY AT LOWELL's enrollment has edged up 76% since 2018, when it stood at 283 (now 497). Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

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