MURIEL FORBES EL

Located at 2630 SALLY GAY DR, in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, MURIEL FORBES EL is a rural-scale elementary school that hosts 154 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under SAN ANTONIO ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so MURIEL FORBES EL sits 70% leaner than that benchmark.

SAN ANTONIO ISD comprises 100 schools with combined enrollment of 47,623 students; MURIEL FORBES EL is among them.

On the student-mix side, MURIEL FORBES EL records that 86% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest breaks down as 8% Black, 5% White. The wider county runs roughly 60% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting MURIEL FORBES EL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Bexar County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, MURIEL FORBES EL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 34.0%; actual is 20.3%, a gap of -13.7 points.

In the area at large, Bexar County reports that the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Bexar County's 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), MURIEL FORBES EL is one campus in the mix.

STEELE MONTESSORI EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MURIEL FORBES EL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MURIEL FORBES EL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 24.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 6-year window. MURIEL FORBES EL's enrollment has shrank 50% since 2018, when it stood at 306 (now 154). Hispanic enrollment moved from 92% to 86% across the same window.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.