Briscoe Elementary School

Size

Of the 48 elementary schools in San Antonio ISD, Briscoe Elementary School is the 25th largest, with 1.1% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.2 miles away and have a median of 428 students, so Briscoe Elementary School is close to their typical size.

As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

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 98 students, and its smallest is grade 4 with 60, against an average of 71 per grade. This year grade 5 has 15% fewer students than kindergarten (61 against 72). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 98 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 94.5% 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.

88.7% 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

Briscoe Elementary School has 27.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 494 students would have about 33.4 teachers, so Briscoe Elementary School has 5.7 fewer.

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

Location

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 KIPP Esperanza Primary School, 0.3 miles away in KIPP Texas Public Schools. There are 68 elementary schools within 5 miles and 171 within 10 miles.

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