The top reported proficiency rate is 37% in Math. The lowest is 10% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Loma Park El
Loma Park Elementary serves the younger grades from pre-K through fifth, situated in San Antonio's southwest corridor in an economically challenged area. The school enrolls a small-to-mid-sized population, with the largest cohorts in the pre-K and kindergarten grades and smaller groups moving through the tested elementary years. Nearly all students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and the student body is predominantly Hispanic, with a small number of Black and white students.
On state testing, Loma Park's results show academic strain across both math and reading. In the most recent assessments, fewer than half of students in any tested grade met proficiency on the STAAR. In third-grade math, roughly two in five students reached proficiency; fourth-grade math and fifth-grade reading performance was notably lower, with about one in three reaching proficiency in math and about two in five in reading. English language arts results in the third grade showed proficiency for about three in ten students. Fifth-grade science proficiency was particularly weak, with only about one in ten students meeting that standard. When viewed across all subjects and performance levels, about half of all students reached the "approaches" level (the lowest passing threshold), about three in ten met grade-level standard, and only about one in ten achieved the master level on any assessment.
Science and social studies performance trail math and reading. Social studies proficiency across the school sits very low, with only about one in eleven students meeting standard and only about one in fifty achieving mastery.
Loma Park is a school of Edgewood Independent School District, which has undergone substantial restructuring. The district closed two schools in 2023 to right-size to a smaller enrollment driven by demographic change and charter competition, and it is now in its second year of implementing a statewide turnaround plan required by the Texas Education Agency. The district operates Schools of Innovation programs elsewhere, including single-gender leadership models and two-way dual language academies available to families across the metro area. However, Loma Park itself appears to be a traditional neighborhood elementary school rather than one of these specialized choice campuses.
The neighborhood around Loma Park is part of San Antonio's southwest side, where housing is among the most affordable in the city. Median home values in the zip code are modest relative to the city and the state, and rents are correspondingly lower. The area sits within the broader San Antonio metro economy, which is anchored by healthcare and military installations but has seen rapid population and housing growth in other parts of the city, with new development concentrated in growth corridors like Stone Oak and downtown revival areas. The southwest side remains a lower-income and lower-growth neighborhood.
For a family considering Loma Park, the core reality is that the school is serving a high-poverty population with academic performance trailing state norms across measured subjects. A parent may want to look into further with the school what instructional supports are in place for students below proficiency and what the school's response strategies are to the district-wide turnaround requirements. The school's setting and demographics will shape a child's peer environment; the neighborhood itself is accessible and stable, though economically constrained.
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