OAK GROVE EL

Set in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, OAK GROVE EL is a mid-tier elementary campus, run under NORTH EAST ISD. It serves 445 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 75 schools in NORTH EAST ISD (56,420 students total), OAK GROVE EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, OAK GROVE EL logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 78%. Other groups include 9% White, 9% Black, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 81% of students at OAK GROVE EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Bexar County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), OAK GROVE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.4%, the actual is 45.0%, a residual of +6.6 points.

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%. In all, Bexar County runs 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), of which OAK GROVE EL is one.

MACARTHUR H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, OAK GROVE EL comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 40.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. OAK GROVE EL's enrollment has climbed 19% since 2018, when it stood at 375 (now 445). The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 66% to 78% over that span.

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