HERITAGE EL

HERITAGE EL is one of the reasonably sized elementary schools in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, one of the schools within SOUTHSIDE ISD, with 555 students on its rolls from grades 1 through 5.

Within SOUTHSIDE ISD, which oversees 10 schools and 6,091 students, HERITAGE EL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, HERITAGE EL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (93%). The remainder reads as 5% White. The wider county runs roughly 60% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, HERITAGE EL has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.9:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 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 above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HERITAGE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.5%, the actual is 49.1%, a residual of +13.6 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Bexar County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, 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), HERITAGE EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is SOUTHSIDE ALTER CTR, roughly 0.0 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HERITAGE EL comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 41.5%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HERITAGE EL has declined 3%, going from 573 students in 2018 to 555 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 today.

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