Located in SAN ANTONIO, TX. Serving grades PK through 05.
Villarreal Elementary sits on the west side of San Antonio, serving prekindergarten through fifth grade within Northside ISD. The school is a mid-sized elementary for its grade band, drawing a student body that is predominantly Hispanic, with smaller shares of Asian, white, and multiracial students. A substantial majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places this school squarely among Title I-eligible populations even though the specific Title I designation was not confirmed in the data provided. English learner counts and special education rates were not available in the data.
The school administers the STAAR in both English and Spanish versions across grades three through five, which is a signal that a meaningful portion of students are receiving instruction in Spanish, likely through a bilingual or dual-language program. That context matters when reading the proficiency data: students tested in Spanish are at a particular stage of their language development pathway, and raw proficiency scores do not tell the whole story about their trajectory.
On the most recent STAAR results, reading and math proficiency at the "meets grade level" standard, which is the level Texas treats as demonstrating solid academic progress, runs below half across all tested grades. Fourth-grade math in particular shows a small share of students reaching that bar. Fifth-grade science proficiency at the meets-grade-level standard is very low, with only a single student in the tested group reaching that threshold. These are not numbers to dismiss; a parent who wants to understand how children are progressing toward grade-level mastery should ask the school directly what interventions are in place and how individual students are tracked. Relative to districts in Bexar County, the school's overall proficiency index falls below the midpoint among the county's districts, which includes a large and varied set of schools. Multi-year trend data was not available beyond the current year, so it is not possible to say whether scores have been rising or falling.
One note on the STAAR structure: the "approaches grade level" threshold, which is the minimum passing bar in Texas, is meaningfully higher than the "meets" standard discussed above. A majority of students across subjects are clearing that lower bar, which means most students are passing, but fewer are reaching the stronger proficiency level. The share reaching "masters grade level," the highest STAAR designation, is quite small across all subjects.
On the housing side, the zip code around Villarreal carries home values well below both the Texas state median and the national median, and below many areas of San Antonio itself. Rents are also on the lower end relative to broader benchmarks. Year-over-year home values in this zip code have edged down slightly, while rents have ticked up modestly. For a family weighing where to live, the west San Antonio neighborhoods near this school offer considerably lower entry costs than the city's northern suburban growth corridors like Stone Oak or Alamo Ranch. San Antonio as a city continues to grow rapidly, publicly reported as adding more residents than any other metro in the country in a recent year, though that growth is concentrated more in the suburban edges than in inner west-side neighborhoods like those around Villarreal.
Northside ISD is one of the larger suburban-to-urban districts in the San Antonio region. A search for recent parent-relevant district changes came up empty before specific initiatives could be confirmed, so district-level strategic priorities or program changes were left out rather than guessed at. Families would want to reach out to the district directly for information about bilingual program structures, after-school supports, and any planned staffing or curriculum changes at this campus.
Program details beyond the STAAR-language signals were not included in the data, so specific extracurricular, enrichment, or intervention offerings at Villarreal itself are a gap worth exploring with the school directly.
Percent of students meeting or exceeding state standards, by grade.
Officially reported figures, 2024-25.
All reported measures, by topic.