ROSE GARDEN EL

As an expansive K-5 school in SCHERTZ, Texas, ROSE GARDEN EL enrolls 861 students from grades pre-K through 4, run under SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD. That puts it 66% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 14,947 students. ROSE GARDEN EL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, ROSE GARDEN EL records that 49% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 29% White, 14% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Bexar County as a whole is about 60% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly less Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 44% of students at ROSE GARDEN EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Bexar County's rate of about 63%.

With demographic context factored in, ROSE GARDEN EL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 54.8%; this one comes in at 26.5%, -28.3 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, 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 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 ROSE GARDEN EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: RAY D CORBETT J H, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ROSE GARDEN EL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ROSE GARDEN EL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 54.9%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 61%: 536 students in 2018 compared to 861 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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