MAY EL

MAY EL, a low-enrollment K-5 school in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, run under NORTHSIDE ISD, educates 426 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

NORTHSIDE ISD comprises 128 schools with combined enrollment of 100,435 students; MAY EL is among them.

Demographically, MAY EL reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 69%. Other groups include 11% White, 10% Asian, 6% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Bexar County as a whole is about 60% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, MAY EL lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting MAY EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 44% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Bexar County's rate of about 63%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), MAY EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.8%, the actual is 43.3%, a residual of -11.5 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Bexar County put the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Bexar County runs 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), of which MAY EL is one.

GARCIA MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MAY EL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 56.3%.

MAY EL operates from a metropolitan location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MAY EL has ticked down 26%, going from 573 students in 2018 to 426 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 23% to 11% across the same window.

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