SOUTHWEST EL

SOUTHWEST EL operates as a medium-sized elementary-level community in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, part of SOUTHWEST ISD. Current enrollment sits at 728 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so SOUTHWEST EL sits 40% bigger than that benchmark.

Within SOUTHWEST ISD, which oversees 18 schools and 14,833 students, SOUTHWEST EL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, SOUTHWEST EL shows that 85% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest comes out to 7% White, 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 60% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 73% of students at SOUTHWEST EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Bexar County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, SOUTHWEST EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.2%, the actual is 41.1%, a residual of -1.1 points.

In the broader community, census data for Bexar County shows the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, 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), SOUTHWEST EL is one campus in the mix.

SOUTHWEST H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SOUTHWEST EL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 35.2%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Over the past 7-year window. SOUTHWEST EL's enrollment has ticked up 14% since 2018, when it stood at 641 (now 728).

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