GILLETTE EL

GILLETTE EL is an elementary-level community of average-sized scale in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, one of the schools within HARLANDALE ISD, serveing 527 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within HARLANDALE ISD, which oversees 21 schools and 11,564 students, GILLETTE EL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, GILLETTE EL lists that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Bexar County as a whole is about 60% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Bexar County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, GILLETTE EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.9%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Bexar County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Bexar County's 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), GILLETTE EL is one campus in the mix.

GREG A GARCIA EARLY COLLEGE INT is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GILLETTE EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts GILLETTE EL at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 35.4%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 14%: 616 students in 2018 compared to 527 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 today.

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