Arnold Elementary School

Size

Of the 48 elementary schools in San Antonio ISD, Arnold Elementary School is the 13th largest, with 1.4% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.3 miles away and have a median of 343 students, so Arnold 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 pre-K with 121 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 80, against an average of 90 per grade. This year grade 5 has 10% more students than kindergarten (88 against 80). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 121 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 96.2% of enrollment, a higher share than across San Antonio ISD (89.8%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

93.5% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 87.2% across San Antonio 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

Arnold Elementary School has 38.71 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 633 students would have about 42.8 teachers, so Arnold Elementary School has 4.1 fewer.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is Compass Rose Dream, 0.3 miles away in Compass Rose Public Schools. There are 62 elementary schools within 5 miles and 181 within 10 miles.

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