WASHINGTON EL

WASHINGTON EL is one of the cozy elementary campuss in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, part of SAN ANTONIO ISD, with 381 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so WASHINGTON EL sits 27% smaller than that benchmark.

SAN ANTONIO ISD runs 100 schools in total, collectively educating 47,623 students. WASHINGTON EL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, WASHINGTON EL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 78% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 18% Black, 3% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

On the resource side, WASHINGTON EL shows 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting WASHINGTON EL higher than the state norm the norm. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. 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, WASHINGTON EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.3%, the actual is 28.2%, a residual of -3.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Bexar County shows the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Bexar County's 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), WASHINGTON EL is one campus in the mix.

YOUNG MEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WASHINGTON EL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WASHINGTON EL at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 43.0%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 20%: 479 students in 2018 compared to 381 in 2025.

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