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SARAH S KING EL
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About SARAH S KING EL
SARAH S KING EL operates as a medium-sized elementary-level community in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, part of SAN ANTONIO ISD. Current enrollment sits at 645 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 24% above the state mean of about 519.
SARAH S KING EL is one of 100 schools operated by SAN ANTONIO ISD, a district that works with 47,623 students overall.
In terms of who attends, SARAH S KING EL lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (83%). Other groups include 9% Asian, 4% Black, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 60% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 99% of students at SARAH S KING EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Bexar County's rate of about 63%.
With demographic context factored in, SARAH S KING EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.8%; this one delivers 21.8%.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Bexar County put median household earnings sit near $72,341, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Bexar County's 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), SARAH S KING EL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: DAEP, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SARAH S KING EL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 16.6%.
The campus sits in a high-density setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. SARAH S KING EL's enrollment has edged down 6% since 2018, when it stood at 686 (now 645). Asian enrollment moved from 1% to 9% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 today.
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