Roy Cisneros Elementary

Roy Cisneros Elementary is a small K-8 school in San Antonio, TX, serving 195 students within the Edgewood Independent School District (Isd), where over 92% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, indicating a community facing significant economic challenges.

One standout feature is the school's exceptional performance in Algebra I, where 100% of test-takers were proficient in 2024-2025, far surpassing the district average of 25.63% and the state average of 47.01%. This is a remarkable outlier compared to nearby schools like Las Palmas Leadership School For Girls, which achieved 77.78%. Additionally, the school has an extremely low student-to-teacher ratio of 8.4:1, much lower than peers like Roosevelt Elementary at 12.2:1, suggesting potential for individualized attention. However, this advantage hasn't translated to broad academic success, as the school ranks in the bottom 5% of Texas elementary schools, with math scores showing extreme volatility—for example, 3rd-grade math proficiency dropped from 47.06% to 0% in one year before recovering to 15.38%.

Interestingly, the school shows strength in serving its Special Education students, who rank in the 54th percentile statewide, but struggles with its general education population, particularly low socio-economic status students who rank in the 3rd percentile. The school also offers Spanish-language STAAR tests, with mixed results—4th graders taking Spanish tests outperformed English test-takers in 2024-2025 (66.67% vs. 15% in Reading), but 3rd-grade Spanish scores were 0% in 2022-2023. In contrast, nearby Irving Dual Language Academy in San Antonio Independent School District (Isd) achieves proficiency rates of 50-85% despite serving a similarly high-poverty population, highlighting the disparity in outcomes within the same community.