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JACKSON-KELLER EL
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 37 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are down about 16 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About JACKSON-KELLER EL
JACKSON-KELLER EL is a K-5 school of mid-sized scale in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, part of NORTH EAST ISD, caters to 552 students in grades K through 5.
JACKSON-KELLER EL is one of 75 schools operated by NORTH EAST ISD, a district that enrolls 56,420 students overall.
Demographically, JACKSON-KELLER EL records that 89% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school records 5% Black, 3% White. 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, The school currently runs with 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting JACKSON-KELLER EL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Bexar County's rate of about 63%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), JACKSON-KELLER EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.3%; this one delivers 39.2%.
In the broader community, census data for Bexar County shows median household earnings sit near $72,341, 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), JACKSON-KELLER EL is one campus in the mix.
LEGACY OF EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JACKSON-KELLER EL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JACKSON-KELLER EL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 48.0%.
The school occupies a suburban site.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JACKSON-KELLER EL has shrank 30%, going from 783 students in 2018 to 552 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 in 2025.
In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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