WALZEM EL

Set in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, WALZEM EL is a medium-sized elementary-level community, part of NORTH EAST ISD. It works with 625 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 20% above typical.

Within NORTH EAST ISD, which oversees 75 schools and 56,420 students, WALZEM EL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, WALZEM EL reports that 82% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 8% Black, 4% White, 4% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Bexar County as a whole is about 60% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting WALZEM EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 87% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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.

With demographic context factored in, WALZEM EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.7%, the actual is 27.9%, a residual of -7.8 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Bexar County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. WALZEM EL is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).

Nearest neighbor: PREMIER HIGH SCHOOL-SAN ANTONIO WINDCREST, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WALZEM EL. On composite proficiency, WALZEM EL comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 34.7%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Looking at the recent track record. WALZEM EL's enrollment has contracted 5% since 2018, when it stood at 656 (now 625). Class-load math has loosened: from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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