HERFF EL

As a mid-sized elementary campus in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, HERFF EL works with 461 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within SAN ANTONIO ISD.

Across the 100 schools in SAN ANTONIO ISD (47,623 students total), HERFF EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, HERFF EL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (91%). Beyond that, the school shows 5% Black, 3% White. By comparison, Bexar County as a whole is about 60% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting HERFF EL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 98% of students at HERFF EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Bexar County's rate of about 63%.

With demographic context factored in, HERFF EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 31.1%; HERFF EL posts 12.4%, -18.7 points below that line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Bexar County) reports that median household earnings sit near $72,341, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Bexar County's 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), HERFF EL is one campus in the mix.

DOUGLASS EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HERFF EL. On composite proficiency, HERFF EL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 37.7%.

HERFF EL operates from a high-density location.

Looking at the recent track record. HERFF EL's enrollment has ticked up 5% since 2018, when it stood at 441 (now 461). The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for HERFF EL typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.