Frank Madla Elementary School

Size

Frank Madla Elementary School is the 7th largest of South San Antonio ISD's 8 elementary schools; its 382 students are 5.1% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.5 miles away and have a median of 509 students, so Frank Madla 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 5 with 68 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 47, against an average of 55 per grade. This year grade 5 has 19% more students than kindergarten (68 against 57). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 52 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 91.4% of enrollment, about the same share as across South San Antonio ISD (94%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of students qualify 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

Frank Madla Elementary School has 23.74 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 382 students would have about 25.8 teachers, so Frank Madla Elementary School has 2.1 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 Lackland Elementary School, 0.5 miles away in Lackland ISD. There are 41 elementary schools within 5 miles and 148 within 10 miles.

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