Enrollment
408
Elementary
DISTRICT 425 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SAN ANTONIO ISD·NCES 483873004397
Smith Elementary School
823 S GEVERS ST, SAN ANTONIO, TX 78203 · (210) 228-3360 · Bexar County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL408 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 16% of Texas public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
390 students
DISTRICT 88% · STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 95 | 23% |
| Kindergarten | 55 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 55 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 48 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 44 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 60 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 51 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (55) is 8% larger than its 5th grade class (51).
Student demographics
23%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 19% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
36.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +6.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
39.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +16.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 39 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 6 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 16 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 15.0% | 21.0% | 23.0% | 41.0% |
| Mathematics | 12.0% | 27.0% | 21.0% | 40.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 36.0% | 39.0% |
| 2024-25 | 35.0% | 29.0% |
| 2023-24 | 34.0% | 34.0% |
| 2022-23 | 34.0% | 43.0% |
| 2021-22 | 34.0% | 31.0% |
| 2020-21 | 30.0% | 23.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
28.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.9%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Smith Elementary School
Smith Elementary School's state test result (28.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smith Elementary School this school | 408 | 95.6% | 28.2% |
| Caldwell Elementary School GARLAND | 422 | 94.8% | 35.8% |
| Oaklawn Elementary School FORT WORTH | 395 | 95.4% | 21.2% |
| Seguin Elementary School HOUSTON | 395 | 97.2% | 45.0% |
| San Jacinto Elementary School DALLAS | 437 | 96.1% | 41.5% |
| Margil Elementary School SAN ANTONIO | 420 | 96.9% | 29.4% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Smith Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Bexar County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.2% | #3,820 of 4,401 | #226 of 313 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #3,017 of 4,466 ▲ 830 | #159 of 317 ▲ 77 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #4,020 of 4,466 ▼ 110 | #269 of 317 ▼ 21 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.0pp | #1,104 of 3,998 | #86 of 282 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 408 | #3,424 of 4,938 | #245 of 346 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.0:1 | #808 of 4,622 | #72 of 314 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 22.5% | #3,678 of 4,628 | #204 of 314 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 95.6% | #428 of 4,789 | #36 of 327 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.4% | #970 of 1,307 | #50 of 70 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
408
+121 (+42%) vs 2020
-36% since 1990-91, when it was 636
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
was 13.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 408 | 31.5 | 13.0:1 | 96% (390) |
| 2023-24 | 285 | 18.1 | 15.8:1 | 95% (270) |
| 2022-23 | 254 | 19 | 13.4:1 | 97% (246) |
| 2020-21 | 287 | 21 | 13.7:1 | 96% (276) |
| 2017-18 | 387 | 25.7 | 15.1:1 | 96% (371) |
| 2015-16 | 446 | 29 | 15.4:1 | 97% (431) |
| 2010-11 | 527 | 33 | 16.0:1 | 32% (169) |
| 2000-01 | 624 | 38 | 16.4:1 | 38% (237) |
| 1990-91 | 636 | 39 | 16.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Smith Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 5% (387 to 408); teachers up 23% (25.7 to 31.5).
About Smith Elementary School
Smith Elementary School sits in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, and is classified as an elementary school. There are 408 students enrolled, covering pre-K through 5. That puts enrollment 21% below the 519-student average for elementary schools in Texas.
SAN ANTONIO ISD runs 100 schools with a combined 47,623 students. Smith Elementary School is one of them.
A large majority of enrollment at Smith Elementary School is Hispanic, at 88%. The school is also 9% Black and 3% White. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 60%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Smith Elementary School scores 23%.
Smith Elementary School has 31.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 13.0:1. Elementary schools in Texas have an average ratio of 15.1:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 96%. Public schools in Bexar County average 63%.
Among Texas public elementary schools, Smith Elementary School outscored 16%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 32.9% for Smith Elementary School. The school posts 28.2%, 4.7 points below the prediction.
For Bexar County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $72,341, about 32% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. There are 638 public schools in the county, enrolling about 368,487, Smith Elementary School among them.
A public school about 0.3 miles away, St Philip's College Early College High School, is the closest to Smith Elementary School. Smith Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Smith Elementary School comes in 5th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Federal data place Smith Elementary School in the City: Large locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Smith Elementary School reported 287 students in 2020-21 and 408 in 2024-25. Changes that large sometimes follow a school adding or dropping grades, so the two figures may not cover the same grades.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on athletics, class schedules, and weather closures here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Bexar County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,067,341
Census ACS
Median income
$72,341
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
638
368,487 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SAN ANTONIO ISD
- Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,706 students
- Lanier High SchoolHigh · 1,620 students
- Brackenridge High SchoolHigh · 1,593 students
- Highlands High SchoolHigh · 1,478 students
- Burbank High SchoolHigh · 1,405 students
- Edison High SchoolHigh · 1,360 students
Other schools in SAN ANTONIO
- Reagan High SchoolHigh · 3,403 students
- East Central High SchoolHigh · 3,362 students
- Johnson High SchoolHigh · 3,196 students
- Brennan High SchoolHigh · 2,965 students
- Harlan High SchoolHigh · 2,778 students
- Clark High SchoolHigh · 2,750 students
Other Smith Elementary schools
20 other US public schools in 9 states are named Smith Elementary. Smith Elementary School is the 18th largest of the 21.
- Smith Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 730 students
- Smith Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 650 students
- Smith Elementary SchoolFRISCO, TX · 642 students
- Smith Elementary SchoolSPRING, TX · 624 students
- Smith Elementary SchoolPRINCETON, TX · 623 students
Nearby schools
- St Philip's College Early College High School0.3 mi · 305
- Edgar Allan Poe STEM Dual Language Middle School0.4 mi · 439
- IDEA Eastside College Preparatory0.8 mi · 469
- IDEA Eastside Academy0.8 mi · 392
- Highland Park Elementary School0.9 mi · 354
- Herff Elementary School0.9 mi · 461
Frequently asked questions
About Smith Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Smith Elementary School?
Smith Elementary School enrolls approximately 408 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Smith Elementary School serve?
Smith Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Smith Elementary School have?
Smith Elementary School employs 31 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.0:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Smith Elementary School?
At Smith Elementary School, the student body is approximately 3% White, 88% Hispanic, 9% Black.
Who oversees Smith Elementary School?
Smith Elementary School is overseen by SAN ANTONIO ISD in Bexar County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.