LIGHTHOUSE EL

LIGHTHOUSE EL operates as a compact K-5 school in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, operated by LIGHTHOUSE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Current enrollment sits at 273 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 47% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

LIGHTHOUSE PUBLIC SCHOOLS runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 462 students. LIGHTHOUSE EL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, LIGHTHOUSE EL records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (89%). The remainder reads as 5% Black, 3% White, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 89% of students at LIGHTHOUSE EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Bexar County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, LIGHTHOUSE EL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 35.0%; actual is 11.6%, a gap of -23.4 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Bexar County) logs that 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%. LIGHTHOUSE EL is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).

LIGHTHOUSE HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LIGHTHOUSE EL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LIGHTHOUSE EL ranks 9th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 30.4%.

LIGHTHOUSE EL operates from an urban location. LIGHTHOUSE EL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. LIGHTHOUSE EL's enrollment has grew 229% since 2018, when it stood at 83 (now 273). The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 13% to 5% over that span. Class-load math has grew: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 in 2025.

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