The top reported proficiency rate is 48% in Math. The lowest is 33% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Cambridge El
Cambridge Elementary sits on Townsend Avenue in San Antonio, serving grades one through five as part of Alamo Heights ISD. The school draws from one of the more sought-after residential pockets inside the city limits, a neighborhood where home values run well above both the Texas statewide median and the national median, and where rents have recently softened slightly. Families buying here should know that Alamo Heights ISD carries the lowest property tax rate among the taxing school districts in Bexar County, publicly reported as a deliberate outcome of state-mandated compression on the operations side even as bond debt service has nudged upward.
The enrollment is substantial for an elementary school, spread fairly evenly across all five grade levels. The student body is roughly split between white and Hispanic students, with smaller shares of Asian, multiracial, and Black students. About a quarter of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a relatively modest share that reflects the economic character of the surrounding neighborhood. Data on English learners and students with IEPs was not available in what we reviewed.
On state assessments, the picture at Cambridge is layered and worth reading carefully. The grade-five cohort, which is the largest tested group by a wide margin and takes the English-language STAAR, posts strong reading and language arts proficiency and solid math proficiency. Science at fifth grade comes in at just under half proficient, which is below the ELA and math marks but not unusual for elementary science statewide. The pattern at third and fourth grade is strikingly different. Those cohorts are small and tested on the STAAR in Spanish, which signals a dual-language or bilingual pathway for a subset of students. Math proficiency for third graders is low, and reading proficiency is lower still. Fourth-grade reading proficiency in this cohort was essentially zero in the most recent year. These are small groups, so a single year's results carry more statistical noise than the fifth-grade figures, but the gap is real and a parent whose child is in or approaching the Spanish-tested pathway would want to ask the school directly about academic support and trajectory.
Zooming out to the schoolwide picture that Texas reports across all subjects and performance tiers: the share of students who at minimum approach grade-level expectations is high, and the share who meet grade-level expectations is solid. The share who reach the masters level, Texas's top performance tier, is more modest. Positioned against districts in Bexar County, Cambridge's overall proficiency index sits above the midpoint of that set, which contains dozens of districts ranging widely in outcomes.
Families enrolling now should be aware of active construction. A voter-approved bond package, the largest in district history and the first in many years, is funding renovations at every campus. Work at Cambridge was publicly reported as running from early 2025 into 2027, and portable classrooms were delivered to the campus ahead of the current school year to accommodate displaced fifth-grade classes. Disruptions are expected to continue for a couple of years, which is worth factoring into a family's decision, especially for anyone with a child entering the school now who will be there through the bulk of the construction window.
San Antonio itself gives the school a dense urban context. The 78209 ZIP code sits in the inner northeast part of the city, close to Brackenridge Park and the broader cultural and employment anchors of the metro. The city is growing rapidly, publicly reported as having added more residents than any other U.S. metropolitan area in a recent year, and the inner neighborhoods around Cambridge have not seen the dramatic new construction reshaping the city's outer edges, which tends to keep the neighborhood's character more stable even as the broader market moves.
Graduation rate is not applicable here; Cambridge ends at fifth grade. Chronic absenteeism data was not available in what we reviewed.
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