RABA EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 69 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 42 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 33 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 51% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About RABA EL
RABA EL, a moderately sized K-5 school in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, one of the schools within NORTHSIDE ISD, hosts 565 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.
RABA EL is one of 128 schools operated by NORTHSIDE ISD, a district that serves 100,435 students overall.
In terms of who attends, RABA EL records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 67% of enrollment. Other groups include 14% White, 7% Black, 6% Asian, 6% multiracial.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting RABA EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 51% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Bexar County's rate of about 63%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), RABA EL ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 51.5%; RABA EL posts 68.3%, +16.8 points above that line.
Zooming out to the county, Bexar County reports that the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Bexar County's 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), RABA EL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: WARREN H S, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, RABA EL comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 40.4%.
The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 27%: 774 students in 2018 compared to 565 in 2025.
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