Bob Hope Elementary School

Size

Bob Hope Elementary School is the 10th largest of Southwest ISD's 11 elementary schools; its 488 students are 3.3% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.9 miles away and have a median of 528 students, so Bob Hope Elementary School is close to their typical size.

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 95 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 45, against an average of 70 per grade. This year grade 5 has 46% more students than kindergarten (95 against 65). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 45 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 92.8% of enrollment, about the same share as across Southwest ISD (89.3%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

88.7% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 82.5% across Southwest 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

Bob Hope Elementary School has 36.64 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 488 students would have about 33 teachers, so Bob Hope Elementary School has 3.6 more.

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 Palo Alto Elementary School, 0.9 miles away in South San Antonio ISD. There are 27 elementary schools within 5 miles and 117 within 10 miles.

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