OTT EL

OTT EL is a mid-tier elementary-level community in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, one of the schools within NORTHSIDE ISD. The school instructs 606 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within NORTHSIDE ISD, which oversees 128 schools and 100,435 students, OTT EL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, OTT EL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 70% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 14% White, 8% Black, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 60% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, OTT EL has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting OTT EL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 58% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, OTT EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 37.9%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Bexar County) records that median household income runs about $72,341, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Bexar County runs 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), of which OTT EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: LUNA MIDDLE, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around OTT EL. On composite proficiency, OTT EL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 46.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 15%: 713 students in 2018 compared to 606 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 29% to 14%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

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