TRADITION EL

TRADITION EL is one of the moderately sized primary schools in ST HEDWIG, Texas, operated by EAST CENTRAL ISD, with 561 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 16 schools in EAST CENTRAL ISD (11,497 students total), TRADITION EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, TRADITION EL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 59% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 28% White, 8% Black, 4% multiracial. Compared to Bexar County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, TRADITION EL has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 60% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, TRADITION EL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 47.6%; actual is 25.5%, a gap of -22.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, 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 roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bexar County runs 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), of which TRADITION EL is one.

Nearest neighbor: HONOR EL, around 3.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts TRADITION EL at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 33.4%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

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