MCDERMOTT EL

MCDERMOTT EL is a mid-sized elementary campus in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, operated by NORTHSIDE ISD. The school serves 775 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 49% above the state mean of about 519.

NORTHSIDE ISD runs 128 schools in total, collectively educating 100,435 students. MCDERMOTT EL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MCDERMOTT EL reports that 48% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 21% Asian, 13% multiracial, 10% Black, 7% White. By comparison, Bexar County as a whole is about 60% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully less Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 73% of students at MCDERMOTT EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Bexar County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, MCDERMOTT EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 42.2%; MCDERMOTT EL posts 22.9%, -19.3 points below that line.

Across the wider county, 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 the poverty rate sits near 11%. MCDERMOTT EL is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).

GREAT HEARTS FOREST HEIGHTS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MCDERMOTT EL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 64.8%.

MCDERMOTT EL operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MCDERMOTT EL has ticked up 15%, going from 676 students in 2018 to 775 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked down from 65% to 48% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.

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