SPICEWOOD PARK EL

Set in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, SPICEWOOD PARK EL is a moderately sized elementary school, operated by SOUTHWEST ISD. It works with 722 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so SPICEWOOD PARK EL sits 39% larger than that benchmark.

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

In terms of who attends, SPICEWOOD PARK EL logs that 88% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 6% Black, 3% White, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 89% of students at SPICEWOOD PARK 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 above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SPICEWOOD PARK EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 33.6%.

Around the school, census data for Bexar County shows median household income runs about $72,341, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. SPICEWOOD PARK EL is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).

BOB HOPE EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SPICEWOOD PARK EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SPICEWOOD PARK EL at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 38.0%.

SPICEWOOD PARK EL operates from an inner-city location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 13%: 637 students in 2018 compared to 722 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 92% to 88% across the same window.

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