ROY BENAVIDEZ EL

ROY BENAVIDEZ EL operates as a medium-sized K-5 school in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, operated by SOUTH SAN ANTONIO ISD. Current enrollment sits at 669 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so ROY BENAVIDEZ EL sits 29% bigger than that benchmark.

ROY BENAVIDEZ EL is one of 15 schools operated by SOUTH SAN ANTONIO ISD, a district that caters to 7,987 students overall.

Looking at the student body, ROY BENAVIDEZ EL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (92%). The remainder comes out to 5% White. By comparison, Bexar County as a whole is about 60% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, ROY BENAVIDEZ EL has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Bexar County's rate of about 63%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ROY BENAVIDEZ EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 31.5%.

In the surrounding community, Bexar County reports that median household earnings sit near $72,341, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Bexar County's 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), ROY BENAVIDEZ EL is one campus in the mix.

ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 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 ROY BENAVIDEZ EL at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 39.4%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. ROY BENAVIDEZ EL's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 654 (now 669). Over the same period, the Hispanic share contracted from 100% to 92%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 19.5:1 today.

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