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What's the biggest difference between WANKE EL and what you expected?
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Enrollment
590
Elementary
DISTRICT 545 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORTHSIDE ISD·NCES 483312011138
Wanke Elementary School
10419 OLD PRUE RD, SAN ANTONIO, TX 78249 · (210) 397-6700 · Bexar County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL590 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
292 students
DISTRICT 54% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 53 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 85 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 82 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 86 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 85 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 98 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 101 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (85) is 16% smaller than its 5th grade class (101).
Student demographics
40%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
56.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +39.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
48.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +39.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 39 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 39 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 22.0% | 34.0% | 28.0% | 16.0% |
| Mathematics | 18.0% | 30.0% | 27.0% | 25.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 56.0% | 48.0% |
| 2024-25 | 56.0% | 48.0% |
| 2023-24 | 51.0% | 40.0% |
| 2022-23 | 39.0% | 44.0% |
| 2021-22 | 39.0% | 28.0% |
| 2020-21 | 17.0% | 9.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
42.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.5%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Wanke Elementary School
Wanke Elementary School's state test result (42.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wanke Elementary School this school | 590 | 49.5% | 42.6% |
| Faye Webb Elementary School CORPUS CHRISTI | 634 | 50.5% | 64.9% |
| Helms Elementary School HOUSTON | 501 | 48.9% | 59.2% |
| Mora Elementary School SAN ANTONIO | 569 | 54.3% | 41.8% |
| Jones Elementary School CORPUS CHRISTI | 520 | 54.4% | 51.9% |
| Polk Elementary School EL PASO | 649 | 43.9% | 60.0% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Wanke Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Bexar County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.6% | #2,248 of 4,401 | #108 of 313 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.0% | #1,986 of 4,466 ▼ 143 | #96 of 317 ▼ 15 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.0% | #1,855 of 4,466 ▼ 23 | #104 of 317 ▼ 12 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +10.5pp | #1,407 of 3,998 | #95 of 282 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 590 | #1,691 of 4,938 | #124 of 346 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #883 of 4,622 | #77 of 314 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 39.6% | #3,071 of 4,628 | #147 of 314 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 49.5% | #3,604 of 4,789 | #256 of 327 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.5% | #682 of 2,838 | #62 of 192 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
590
-95 (-14%) vs 2020
-33% since 2010-11, when it was 879
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 15.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 590 | 45 | 13.1:1 | 49% (292) |
| 2023-24 | 662 | 46 | 14.4:1 | 43% (285) |
| 2022-23 | 649 | 45.5 | 14.3:1 | 49% (316) |
| 2020-21 | 685 | 43 | 15.9:1 | 34% (234) |
| 2017-18 | 803 | 49.5 | 16.2:1 | 40% (321) |
| 2015-16 | 851 | 53 | 16.1:1 | 38% (324) |
| 2010-11 | 879 | 53 | 16.6:1 | 39% (339) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wanke Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 27% (803 to 590); teachers down 9% (49.5 to 45).
About Wanke Elementary School
The public elementary school Wanke Elementary School is located in SAN ANTONIO, Texas. It reports enrollment of 590 students in pre-K through 5.
NORTHSIDE ISD has a total of 127 schools and 100,208 students, Wanke Elementary School among them.
The student body at Wanke Elementary School is 76% Hispanic. Beyond that, enrollment is 15% White, 3% Black, 3% multiracial, and 2% Asian. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 60%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 40, compared with 70 nationally.
Wanke Elementary School reported 45 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 13.1:1. Elementary schools in Texas have an average ratio of 15.1:1. Roughly 49% of students at Wanke Elementary School can receive free or reduced-price lunch. That is lower than the 63% average for public schools in Bexar County.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Wanke Elementary School, the prediction is 52.5% and the result is 42.6%.
Census data for Bexar County show the median household earns about $72,341 a year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Counting Wanke Elementary School, Bexar County has 638 public schools.
Anne Frank Inspire Academy sits about 0.6 miles from Wanke Elementary School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Wanke Elementary School comes in 8th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Wanke Elementary School is coded City: Large, for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 590, from 685 in 2020-21. The ratio of students to teachers went from 15.9:1 to 13.1:1 over the same years.
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Bexar County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,067,341
Census ACS
Median income
$72,341
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
638
368,487 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NORTHSIDE ISD
- Brennan High SchoolHigh · 2,965 students
- Harlan High SchoolHigh · 2,778 students
- Clark High SchoolHigh · 2,750 students
- Taft High SchoolHigh · 2,670 students
- Brandeis High SchoolHigh · 2,657 students
- Marshall High SchoolHigh · 2,634 students
Other schools in SAN ANTONIO
- Reagan High SchoolHigh · 3,403 students
- East Central High SchoolHigh · 3,362 students
- Johnson High SchoolHigh · 3,196 students
- Brennan High SchoolHigh · 2,965 students
- Harlan High SchoolHigh · 2,778 students
- Clark High SchoolHigh · 2,750 students
Nearby schools
- Anne Frank Inspire Academy0.6 mi · 608
- Steubing Elementary School0.8 mi · 436
- Scobee Elementary School1.1 mi · 470
- Braun Station Elementary School1.3 mi · 332
- Nichols Elementary School1.4 mi · 321
- Great Hearts Invictus1.6 mi · 918
Frequently asked questions
About Wanke Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Wanke Elementary School?
Wanke Elementary School enrolls approximately 590 students in grades PK-05.
Is Wanke Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Wanke Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Wanke Elementary School?
Approximately 13.1:1 students per teacher at Wanke Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Wanke Elementary School?
At Wanke Elementary School, the student body is approximately 15% White, 76% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Wanke Elementary School public or private?
Wanke Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by NORTHSIDE ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.