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What's the most underrated thing about MICHAEL EL that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
530
Elementary
DISTRICT 545 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORTHSIDE ISD·NCES 483312008119
Michael Elementary School
3155 QUIET PLAIN, SAN ANTONIO, TX 78245 · (210) 397-3900 · Bexar County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL530 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
78%
414 students
DISTRICT 54% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 70 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 80 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 57 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 72 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 80 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 90 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 81 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (80) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (81).
Student demographics
29%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
54.0%
TX avg 54.5% . -46.0pp since 2022
Mathematics
40.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +11.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are down about 46 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 11 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 28.0% | 26.0% | 25.0% | 21.0% |
| Mathematics | 14.0% | 26.0% | 26.0% | 34.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 54.0% | 40.0% |
| 2024-25 | 50.0% | 35.0% |
| 2023-24 | 41.0% | 27.0% |
| 2022-23 | 100.0% | 29.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
32.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.3%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Michael Elementary School
Michael Elementary School's state test result (32.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Elementary School this school | 530 | 78.1% | 32.6% |
| Bowie Elementary School ROSENBERG | 523 | 81.3% | 35.0% |
| Blanton Elementary School CARROLLTON | 503 | 76.7% | 42.6% |
| Dr Joseph Torres Elementary School EL PASO | 558 | 81.4% | 33.1% |
| Cody Elementary School SAN ANTONIO | 480 | 78.5% | 32.1% |
| IDEA Carver Academy SAN ANTONIO | 468 | 77.6% | 44.1% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Michael Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Bexar County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.6% | #3,413 of 4,401 | #191 of 313 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #2,899 of 4,466 ▲ 392 | #144 of 317 ▲ 33 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.0% | #2,072 of 4,466 ▲ 417 | #119 of 317 ▲ 15 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -17.5pp | #108 of 3,998 | #11 of 282 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 530 | #2,239 of 4,938 | #163 of 346 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #1,052 of 4,622 | #91 of 314 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 28.7% | #3,470 of 4,628 | #180 of 314 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 78.1% | #2,083 of 4,789 | #168 of 327 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -29.4% | #540 of 2,838 | #47 of 192 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
530
-112 (-17%) vs 2020
-9% since 2000-01, when it was 584
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 14.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 530 | 39.7 | 13.4:1 | 78% (414) |
| 2023-24 | 524 | 38 | 13.8:1 | 79% (413) |
| 2022-23 | 559 | 43 | 13.0:1 | 82% (456) |
| 2020-21 | 642 | 43 | 14.9:1 | 74% (473) |
| 2017-18 | 751 | 48.8 | 15.4:1 | 68% (511) |
| 2015-16 | 853 | 54 | 15.8:1 | 73% (624) |
| 2010-11 | 601 | 41 | 14.7:1 | 75% (453) |
| 2000-01 | 584 | 40 | 14.6:1 | 65% (378) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Michael Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 29% (751 to 530); teachers down 19% (48.8 to 39.7).
About Michael Elementary School
A mid-sized elementary school in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Michael Elementary School is part of NORTHSIDE ISD. The school serves pre-K through 5. Enrollment is 530 students.
NORTHSIDE ISD enrolls 100,208 students in 127 schools, including Michael Elementary School.
Of every 100 students at Michael Elementary School, about 84 are Hispanic. Other students are 6% Black, 5% White, and 3% multiracial. That is higher than the 60% Hispanic share among all Bexar County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 29%.
A staff of 39.7 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 13.4:1. The average for elementary schools in Texas, 15.1:1, is higher. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 78%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Bexar County is 63%.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Michael Elementary School would be expected to post about 40.3%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 32.6%.
The school is in Bexar County, where the median household earns about $72,341 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 32% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. Across Bexar County, 638 public schools serve about 368,487 students.
Michael Elementary School's closest public school neighbor is Fisher Elementary School, about 0.4 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Michael Elementary School at 8th of 9.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 17%, from 642 to 530. By 2024-25, the school had 13.4 students per teacher, compared with 14.9 in 2020-21.
The allk12 page for Michael Elementary School lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Bexar County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,067,341
Census ACS
Median income
$72,341
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
638
368,487 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NORTHSIDE ISD
- Brennan High SchoolHigh · 2,965 students
- Harlan High SchoolHigh · 2,778 students
- Clark High SchoolHigh · 2,750 students
- Taft High SchoolHigh · 2,670 students
- Brandeis High SchoolHigh · 2,657 students
- Marshall High SchoolHigh · 2,634 students
Other schools in SAN ANTONIO
- Reagan High SchoolHigh · 3,403 students
- East Central High SchoolHigh · 3,362 students
- Johnson High SchoolHigh · 3,196 students
- Brennan High SchoolHigh · 2,965 students
- Harlan High SchoolHigh · 2,778 students
- Clark High SchoolHigh · 2,750 students
Nearby schools
- Fisher Elementary School0.4 mi · 565
- IDEA Ambrose and Freda Robinson College Preparator0.8 mi · 111
- IDEA Ambrose and Freda Robinson Academy0.8 mi · 423
- Adams Hill Elementary School0.9 mi · 473
- Kriewald Road School of the Arts1.0 mi · 610
- Big Country Elementary School1.1 mi · 660
Frequently asked questions
About Michael Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Michael Elementary School?
Michael Elementary School enrolls approximately 530 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Michael Elementary School serve?
Michael Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Michael Elementary School have?
Michael Elementary School employs 40 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.4:1.
What is the student diversity at Michael Elementary School?
Student demographics at Michael Elementary School are roughly 5% White, 84% Hispanic, 6% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Michael Elementary School in?
Michael Elementary School is part of NORTHSIDE ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.