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NORTHWEST CROSSING EL
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About NORTHWEST CROSSING EL
NORTHWEST CROSSING EL, a modestly sized elementary school in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, operated by NORTHSIDE ISD, hosts 362 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 30% below typical.
Within NORTHSIDE ISD, which oversees 128 schools and 100,435 students, NORTHWEST CROSSING EL is one campus in the system.
On demographics, NORTHWEST CROSSING EL shows that 72% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 16% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Black, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.
On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting NORTHWEST CROSSING EL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 55% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Bexar County (around 63%), the school's rate is south of typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, NORTHWEST CROSSING EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.9%, the actual is 36.3%, a residual of -13.6 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%. NORTHWEST CROSSING EL is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).
BURKE EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around NORTHWEST CROSSING EL. On composite proficiency, NORTHWEST CROSSING EL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 46.5%.
NORTHWEST CROSSING EL operates from a high-density location.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at NORTHWEST CROSSING EL has shrank 33%, going from 539 students in 2018 to 362 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 in 2025.
Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the NORTHWEST CROSSING EL community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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