NORTHERN HILLS EL

Located at 13901 HIGGINS RD, in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, NORTHERN HILLS EL is an average-sized elementary school that educates 501 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of NORTH EAST ISD.

NORTH EAST ISD comprises 75 schools with combined enrollment of 56,420 students; NORTHERN HILLS EL is among them.

On demographics, NORTHERN HILLS EL reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 67%. Other groups include 16% White, 11% Black, 5% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 74% 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 somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, NORTHERN HILLS EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.4%; this one delivers 29.8%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Bexar County) reports that median household income runs about $72,341, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. NORTHERN HILLS EL is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).

MADISON H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, NORTHERN HILLS EL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.6%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at NORTHERN HILLS EL has edged down 26%, going from 679 students in 2018 to 501 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 21% to 16% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.