Enrollment
183
Elementary
DISTRICT 515 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORTH EAST ISD·NCES 483294003660
Wilshire Elementary School
6523 CASCADE, SAN ANTONIO, TX 78218 · (210) 407-9400 · Bexar County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL183 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 55% of Texas public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
7.6:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
167 students
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 65%
Community
0
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 | 21 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 28 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 22 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 28 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 21 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 37 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 26 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (28) is 8% larger than its 5th grade class (26).
Student demographics
43%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · 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 2024-25 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
49.0%
TX avg 53.3% . -8.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
43.0%
TX avg 43.3% . +7.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 53 and 43. Reading scores are down about 8 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 7 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 21.0% | 28.0% | 37.0% | 14.0% |
| Mathematics | 16.0% | 27.0% | 34.0% | 23.0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 49.0% | 43.0% |
| 2023-24 | 47.0% | 34.0% |
| 2022-23 | 57.0% | 29.0% |
| 2021-22 | 67.0% | 33.0% |
| 2020-21 | 57.0% | 36.0% |
% 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
42.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.7%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% 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 Wilshire Elementary School
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilshire Elementary School this school | 183 | 91.3% | 42.4% |
| Sunrise Elementary School AMARILLO | 196 | 95.4% | 66.8% |
| Brook Village Early Childhood WICHITA FALLS | 196 | 97.4% | N/A |
| Fred Douglass Early Childhood Center SHERMAN | 224 | 85.7% | N/A |
| Early Childhood Center at Fw Gross VICTORIA | 170 | 98.8% | N/A |
| Ignite Community School - Garland GARLAND | 227 | 91.6% | 34.5% |
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 Wilshire Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Bexar County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.4% | #2,287 of 4,401 | #111 of 313 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #2,538 of 4,466 ▲ 848 | #121 of 317 ▲ 61 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #2,663 of 4,466 ▲ 190 | #150 of 317 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -4.0pp | #764 of 3,998 | #62 of 282 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 183 | #4,678 of 4,938 | #318 of 346 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 91.3% | #923 of 4,789 | #80 of 327 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -46.0% | #89 of 2,838 | #11 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
183
-95 (-34%) vs 2020
-69% since 1990-91, when it was 590
Student : Teacher
7.6:1
was 10.3:1
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 | 183 | 24.1 | 7.6:1 | 91% (167) |
| 2023-24 | 206 | 25.1 | 8.2:1 | 91% (188) |
| 2022-23 | 265 | 26.2 | 10.1:1 | 87% (230) |
| 2020-21 | 278 | 27 | 10.3:1 | 91% (253) |
| 2017-18 | 339 | 29.4 | 11.5:1 | 88% (297) |
| 2015-16 | 353 | 29 | 12.2:1 | 82% (291) |
| 2010-11 | 354 | 28 | 12.6:1 | 78% (277) |
| 2000-01 | 434 | 37 | 11.7:1 | 74% (322) |
| 1990-91 | 590 | 38 | 15.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wilshire Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 46% (339 to 183); teachers down 18% (29.4 to 24.1).
About Wilshire Elementary School
Wilshire Elementary School is a very small elementary school in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, one of the schools in NORTH EAST ISD. It has an enrollment of 183 students in pre-K through 5. That compares with an average of about 519 students for elementary schools in Texas.
Wilshire Elementary School sits within NORTH EAST ISD, which has 75 schools and 56,420 students.
About 74% of the student body at Wilshire Elementary School is Hispanic. The remaining students are 13% White, 10% Black, and 3% multiracial. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 60%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 43, compared with 70 nationally.
Teacher count: 24.1 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 7.6:1. Across elementary schools in Texas, the average ratio is 15.1:1. Roughly 91% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Bexar County is 63%.
Wilshire Elementary School holds a B allk12 Grade, placing it above 55% of Texas public elementary schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Wilshire Elementary School is 7.7 points above the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 42.4% actual, 34.7% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Texas.
The school's county is Bexar County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $72,341 a year, roughly 32% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Bexar County number 638, with about 368,487 students.
Less than a tenth of a mile separates Wilshire Elementary School from the closest public school, Alternative Elementary School. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Wilshire Elementary School is 2nd of 4 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Large.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased 34%. The school's ratio dropped from 10.3:1 to 7.6:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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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 NORTH EAST ISD
- Reagan High SchoolHigh · 3,403 students
- Johnson High SchoolHigh · 3,196 students
- Madison High SchoolHigh · 2,616 students
- Roosevelt High SchoolHigh · 2,431 students
- Churchill High SchoolHigh · 2,308 students
- Legacy of Educational Excellence High SchoolHigh · 2,285 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
Other Wilshire Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Wilshire Elementary. Wilshire Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Wilshire Elementary SchoolEULESS, TX · 681 students
Nearby schools
- Alternative Elementary School0.0 mi · 11
- George Gervin Academy0.4 mi · 793
- Ruth Jones McClendon Middle School0.4 mi · 72
- Robert G Cole Middle/High School0.7 mi · 810
- East Terrell Hills Elementary School1.1 mi · 584
- Northeast Campus1.1 mi · 73
Frequently asked questions
About Wilshire Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Wilshire Elementary School?
Wilshire Elementary School enrolls approximately 183 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Wilshire Elementary School serve?
Wilshire Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Wilshire Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Wilshire Elementary School is approximately 7.6:1 (24 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Wilshire Elementary School?
Student demographics at Wilshire Elementary School are roughly 13% White, 74% Hispanic, 10% Black, 3% Two or more.
Is Wilshire Elementary School public or private?
Wilshire Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by NORTH EAST ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.