Highland Hills Elementary School

Size

Of the 48 elementary schools in San Antonio ISD, Highland Hills Elementary School is the 5th largest, with 1.6% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.4 miles away and have a median of 640 students, so Highland Hills 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 3 with 127 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 87, against an average of 102 per grade. This year grade 5 has 14% more students than kindergarten (103 against 90). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 106 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 91.6% of enrollment, about the same share as across San Antonio ISD (89.8%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

93% 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

Highland Hills Elementary School has 37.99 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 18.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 715 students would have about 48.3 teachers, so Highland Hills Elementary School has 10.3 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 Jubilee Highland Hills, 0.6 miles away in Jubilee Academies. There are 40 elementary schools within 5 miles and 127 within 10 miles.

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