MARGIL EL

MARGIL EL, a low-enrollment elementary school in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, part of SAN ANTONIO ISD, serves 420 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

SAN ANTONIO ISD comprises 100 schools with combined enrollment of 47,623 students; MARGIL EL is among them.

Looking at the student body, MARGIL EL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (89%). Beyond that, the school reports 6% Black, 4% White. By comparison, Bexar County as a whole is about 60% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Bexar County (around 63%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MARGIL EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.6%, the actual is 27.4%, a residual of -4.2 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Bexar County put median household earnings sit near $72,341, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. MARGIL EL is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).

DAVID CROCKETT ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MARGIL EL at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 24.7%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. MARGIL EL's enrollment has shrank 25% since 2018, when it stood at 563 (now 420). The Hispanic share of enrollment declined from 96% to 89% over that span.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.