Alonso S Perales Elementary School

Size

Alonso S Perales Elementary School is the 3rd largest of Edgewood ISD's 10 elementary schools; its 469 students are 6% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 341; Alonso S Perales Elementary School is larger than most of them.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 5 with 89 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 51, against an average of 67 per grade. This year grade 5 has 75% more students than kindergarten (89 against 51). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 51 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 98.3% here and 96.4% across Edgewood ISD. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

90.4% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 93.7% across Edgewood ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 29 full-time-equivalent teachers for 469 students, Alonso S Perales Elementary School has 16.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 469 students would have about 31.7 teachers, so Alonso S Perales Elementary School has 2.7 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

Alonso S Perales Elementary School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Carvajal Elementary School, 0.5 miles away in San Antonio ISD. Within 10 miles there are 178 other elementary schools, 68 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.