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V M ADAMS EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 29 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 8 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 14 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About V M ADAMS EL
V M ADAMS EL operates as a mid-tier elementary school in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, one of the schools within HARLANDALE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 732 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 41% larger than the state mean of about 519.
Within HARLANDALE ISD, which oversees 21 schools and 11,564 students, V M ADAMS EL is one campus in the system.
Looking at the student body, V M ADAMS EL shows that nearly all students (98%) are Hispanic. 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, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Bexar County's rate of about 63%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, V M ADAMS EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.9%; this one delivers 28.4%.
In the area at large, 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. V M ADAMS EL is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).
HARLANDALE H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), V M ADAMS EL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 29.4%.
Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 723 students in 2018 compared to 732 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.
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