MORA EL

MORA EL is one of the moderately sized elementary schools in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, part of NORTHSIDE ISD, with 569 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

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

In terms of who attends, MORA EL shows that 75% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school reports 12% White, 7% Black, 5% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, MORA EL has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting MORA EL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 54% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Bexar County's rate of about 63%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MORA EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 40.2%.

Around the school, census data for Bexar County shows median household earnings sit near $72,341, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Bexar County's 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), MORA EL is one campus in the mix.

BEHLAU EL 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. On composite proficiency, MORA EL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 42.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

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