JULIAN C GALLARDO EL

JULIAN C GALLARDO EL operates as a medium-sized elementary-level community in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, operated by SOUTHSIDE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 602 students spanning grades 1 through 5.

JULIAN C GALLARDO EL is one of 10 schools operated by SOUTHSIDE ISD, a district that instructs 6,091 students overall.

On the student-mix side, JULIAN C GALLARDO EL reports that nearly all students (90%) are Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 6% White. The wider county runs roughly 60% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 84% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Bexar County's rate of about 63%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JULIAN C GALLARDO EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 37.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 37.1%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Bexar County) logs that median household earnings sit near $72,341, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Bexar County's 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), JULIAN C GALLARDO EL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is FRANK M TEJEDA ACADEMY, roughly 1.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JULIAN C GALLARDO EL. On composite proficiency, JULIAN C GALLARDO EL comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 47.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 7%: 645 students in 2018 compared to 602 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

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