MEAD EL

Set in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, MEAD EL is a heavily attended K-5 school, operated by NORTHSIDE ISD. It caters to 887 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 71% above typical.

MEAD EL is one of 128 schools operated by NORTHSIDE ISD, a district that caters to 100,435 students overall.

On demographics, MEAD EL logs that 42% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 23% Asian, 14% multiracial, 11% White, 10% Black. By comparison, Bexar County as a whole is about 60% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably less Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 92% of students at MEAD EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Bexar County's rate of about 63%.

After controlling for student poverty, MEAD EL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 33.9%; this one comes in at 16.1%, -17.8 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Bexar County) shows that median household earnings sit near $72,341, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Bexar County runs 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), of which MEAD EL is one.

REDDIX CENTER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 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 MEAD EL at 5th of 5; the average score across the group is 47.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Looking at the recent track record. MEAD EL's enrollment has grew 21% since 2018, when it stood at 735 (now 887). The Hispanic share of enrollment shrank from 53% to 42% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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