Five Palms Elementary School

Size

Of the 8 elementary schools in South San Antonio ISD, Five Palms Elementary School is the 4th largest, with 5.9% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 605; Five Palms Elementary School is smaller 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 4 with 75 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 51, against an average of 63 per grade. This year grade 5 has 45% more students than kindergarten (74 against 51). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 56 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 90.3% here and 94% across South San Antonio ISD. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

95% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 91.6% across South 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

With 22.4 full-time-equivalent teachers for 444 students, Five Palms Elementary School has 19.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 444 students would have about 30 teachers, so Five Palms Elementary School has 7.6 fewer.

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

Location

Five Palms Elementary School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Neil Armstrong Elementary School, 0.5 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 136 other elementary schools, 35 of them within 5 miles.

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