PALO ALTO EL

PALO ALTO EL is an elementary campus of average-sized scale in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, run under SOUTH SAN ANTONIO ISD, hosting 528 students in grades pre-K through 5.

SOUTH SAN ANTONIO ISD runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 7,987 students. PALO ALTO EL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, PALO ALTO EL records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (93%). Other groups include 5% White, 2% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 93% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PALO ALTO EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.2%; this one delivers 21.9%.

In the area at large, census data for Bexar County shows median household income runs about $72,341, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. PALO ALTO EL is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).

ROY BENAVIDEZ EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PALO ALTO EL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.4%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PALO ALTO EL has edged up 7%, going from 495 students in 2018 to 528 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment shrank from 98% to 93% over that span.

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