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RAHE BULVERDE EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 81 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 77 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 38 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 34 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About RAHE BULVERDE EL
RAHE BULVERDE EL is a medium-sized K-5 school in BULVERDE, Texas, run under COMAL ISD. The school educates 617 students in grades pre-K through 5.
COMAL ISD runs 37 schools in total, collectively educating 29,839 students. RAHE BULVERDE EL is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, RAHE BULVERDE EL records that 56% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 36% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Comal County as a whole is about 71% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, The school reports having 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 18% of students at RAHE BULVERDE EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Comal County (around 32%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, RAHE BULVERDE EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.2%, the actual is 76.1%, a residual of +9.9 points.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Comal County) reports that median household income runs about $101,889, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Comal County runs 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,653 students), of which RAHE BULVERDE EL is one.
HILL COUNTRY COLLEGE PREP H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts RAHE BULVERDE EL at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 70.3%.
The school occupies a low-density site.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 53%: 402 students in 2018 compared to 617 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.
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Comal County at a glance
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