STAFFORD EL

Located at 415 SW 36TH ST, in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, STAFFORD EL is a rural-scale junior high that educates 102 students (grade 5), operated by EDGEWOOD ISD. That puts it 84% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

Across the 29 schools in EDGEWOOD ISD (9,461 students total), STAFFORD EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, STAFFORD EL reports that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Bexar County as a whole is about 60% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, STAFFORD EL has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.7:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Bexar County's rate of about 63%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, STAFFORD EL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 34.1%; STAFFORD EL posts 16.9%, -17.2 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, Bexar County reports that the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Bexar County's 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), STAFFORD EL is one campus in the mix.

STAFFORD EL VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around STAFFORD EL. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), STAFFORD EL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 35.2%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Five-year trend. STAFFORD EL's enrollment has fell 79% since 2018, when it stood at 493 (now 102). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 8.7:1 today.

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