VALLEY HI EL

VALLEY HI EL is one of the intimate elementary campuss in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, part of NORTHSIDE ISD, with 295 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 43% below the state mean of about 519.

NORTHSIDE ISD runs 128 schools in total, collectively educating 100,435 students. VALLEY HI EL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, VALLEY HI EL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (87%). The remainder reads as 6% White, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Bexar County as a whole is about 60% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting VALLEY HI EL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 82% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Bexar County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, VALLEY HI EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 37.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 37.1%.

In the area at large, census data for Bexar County shows median household income runs about $72,341, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. VALLEY HI EL is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).

RAYBURN MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), VALLEY HI EL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 35.6%.

VALLEY HI EL operates from an inner-city location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at VALLEY HI EL has contracted 28%, going from 409 students in 2018 to 295 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

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