MARY LOU HARTMAN

As an average-sized elementary-level community in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, MARY LOU HARTMAN works with 568 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of JUDSON ISD.

MARY LOU HARTMAN is one of 36 schools operated by JUDSON ISD, a district that hosts 23,539 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MARY LOU HARTMAN records that 76% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school logs 14% Black, 6% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, MARY LOU HARTMAN performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.5%, the actual is 31.3%, a residual of -6.2 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Bexar County) logs that median household earnings sit near $72,341, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. MARY LOU HARTMAN is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).

The closest other public school is IDEA WALZEM COLLEGE PREPARATORY, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MARY LOU HARTMAN. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MARY LOU HARTMAN ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 36.4%.

MARY LOU HARTMAN operates from an urban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MARY LOU HARTMAN has edged down 25%, going from 753 students in 2018 to 568 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.