MEDIO CREEK EL

MEDIO CREEK EL is a primary school of moderately sized scale in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, one of the schools within SOUTHWEST ISD, teacheing 684 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 32% above the state mean of about 519.

SOUTHWEST ISD comprises 18 schools with combined enrollment of 14,833 students; MEDIO CREEK EL is among them.

On the student-mix side, MEDIO CREEK EL lists that 86% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 7% Black, 4% White. By comparison, Bexar County as a whole is about 60% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 88% of students at MEDIO CREEK EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Bexar County's rate of about 63%.

After controlling for student poverty, MEDIO CREEK EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.6%; this one delivers 33.3%.

Across the wider county, Bexar County reports that the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 MEDIO CREEK EL is one.

SHARON CHRISTA MCAULIFFE MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, MEDIO CREEK EL comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 29.8%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 15%: 597 students in 2018 compared to 684 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment declined from 92% to 86% over that span.

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