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HIDDEN FOREST EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are down about 11 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 10 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About HIDDEN FOREST EL
HIDDEN FOREST EL, a mid-sized primary school in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, part of NORTH EAST ISD, hosts 529 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.
Across the 75 schools in NORTH EAST ISD (56,420 students total), HIDDEN FOREST EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, HIDDEN FOREST EL lists that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 39% Hispanic, 5% Black, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 42%.
On the income-and-resources front, HIDDEN FOREST EL lists 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.4:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 19% of students at HIDDEN FOREST EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Bexar County's rate of about 63%.
After controlling for student poverty, HIDDEN FOREST EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 65.8%; this one delivers 65.5%.
In the broader community, census data for Bexar County shows median household income runs about $72,341, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 HIDDEN FOREST EL is one.
The closest other public school is HUEBNER EL, roughly 1.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HIDDEN FOREST EL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 66.0%.
The school occupies a metropolitan site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 6%: 564 students in 2018 compared to 529 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 56% to 52% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 in 2025.
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Bexar County at a glance
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