HIGHLAND FOREST EL

Set in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, HIGHLAND FOREST EL is a mid-tier elementary campus, one of the schools within EAST CENTRAL ISD. It educates 694 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so HIGHLAND FOREST EL sits 34% larger than that benchmark.

EAST CENTRAL ISD runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 11,497 students. HIGHLAND FOREST EL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, HIGHLAND FOREST EL logs that 86% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 6% Black, 5% White. The wider county runs roughly 60% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, HIGHLAND FOREST EL shows 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 81% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Bexar County's rate of about 63%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HIGHLAND FOREST EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.6%; this one delivers 33.2%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Bexar County indicate the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, 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), HIGHLAND FOREST EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: ROGERS MIDDLE, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HIGHLAND FOREST EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HIGHLAND FOREST EL at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 25.0%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. HIGHLAND FOREST EL's enrollment has rose 52% since 2018, when it stood at 457 (now 694). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged down from 92% to 86% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 today.

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