SILOS EL

Set in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, SILOS EL is a large primary school, operated by MEDINA VALLEY ISD. It serves 1,011 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so SILOS EL sits 95% bigger than that benchmark.

MEDINA VALLEY ISD comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 9,638 students; SILOS EL is among them.

On demographics, SILOS EL reports that 64% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 18% White, 9% Black, 6% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, SILOS EL reports 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 60% of students at SILOS EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SILOS EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.2%, the actual is 40.4%, a residual of -7.8 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Bexar County indicate median household earnings sit near $72,341, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Bexar County runs 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), of which SILOS EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: LUCKEY RANCH EL, around 2.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SILOS EL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 51.8%.

SILOS EL operates from a countryside location.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for SILOS EL typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.