SMITH EL

SMITH EL is an elementary-level community of cozy scale in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, operated by SAN ANTONIO ISD, teacheing 408 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 21% leaner than typical.

Within SAN ANTONIO ISD, which oversees 100 schools and 47,623 students, SMITH EL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, SMITH EL records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (88%). Beyond that, the school reports 9% Black, 3% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting SMITH EL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Bexar County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, SMITH EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.1%, the actual is 30.6%, a residual of -1.5 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Bexar County shows median household income runs about $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%. SMITH EL is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).

ST PHILIP'S COLLEGE EARLY COLLEGE H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SMITH EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SMITH EL at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 32.3%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Looking at the recent track record. SMITH EL's enrollment has grew 5% since 2018, when it stood at 387 (now 408). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

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