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KENDALL EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About KENDALL EL
KENDALL EL operates as a mid-tier primary school in BOERNE, Texas, overseen by BOERNE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 562 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.
Across the 13 schools in BOERNE ISD (11,101 students total), KENDALL EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, KENDALL EL records that 52% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 38% White, 5% Asian, 2% Black, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 24% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 34% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Kendall County runs at roughly 24%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, KENDALL EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.2%, the actual is 64.0%, a residual of +4.8 points.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Kendall County) shows that median household earnings sit near $114,962, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Kendall County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,640 students), of which KENDALL EL is one.
Nearest neighbor: BOERNE MIDDLE SOUTH, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts KENDALL EL at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 70.6%.
KENDALL EL operates from a town-center location.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at KENDALL EL has fell 26%, going from 762 students in 2018 to 562 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 57% to 38% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.
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