RIVERSIDE PARK EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 22 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 7 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 9 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% 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%.
6-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2023-24About RIVERSIDE PARK EL
Set in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, RIVERSIDE PARK EL is a low-enrollment elementary school, one of the schools within SAN ANTONIO ISD. It serves 275 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 47% below typical.
SAN ANTONIO ISD comprises 100 schools with combined enrollment of 47,623 students; RIVERSIDE PARK EL is among them.
On demographics, RIVERSIDE PARK EL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (95%); the rest breaks down as 2% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, RIVERSIDE PARK EL has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 92% of students at RIVERSIDE PARK 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.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, RIVERSIDE PARK EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.9%, the actual is 20.4%, a residual of -13.5 points.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Bexar County indicate median household earnings sit near $72,341, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bexar County runs 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), of which RIVERSIDE PARK EL is one.
Nearest neighbor: GREEN EL AT RIVERSIDE PARK, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around RIVERSIDE PARK EL. On composite proficiency, RIVERSIDE PARK EL comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 34.9%.
Geographically, the school is in an urban area.
Trend over the last 6 years. RIVERSIDE PARK EL's enrollment has fell 30% since 2018, when it stood at 393 (now 275). Class-load math has widened: from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2024.
On the community side, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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