Alta Loma El, San Angelo TX - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Alta Loma El

Alta Loma Elementary serves a small enrollment of kindergarten through fifth grade students in San Angelo. The school sits in a neighborhood that has experienced significant economic stress: a substantial majority of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, and the student population is predominantly Hispanic with a meaningful share of white students and smaller groups from other backgrounds.

The school's academic performance, measured by state testing in reading, math, and science, is substantially below the midpoint among the county's districts. In third-grade English language arts, proficiency rates sit in the lower range. By fifth grade, proficiency in both reading and math drops further. In fifth-grade science, no students met proficiency. These results reflect serious challenges in core academic skill development that a parent would want to explore directly with the school's leadership.

The school's position relative to other Tom Green County districts places it in the bottom quartile on an overall proficiency index that aggregates performance across tested subjects and grades. A parent may want to look into this further with the school to understand what instructional supports, interventions, or curriculum changes are underway to address these gaps.

San Angelo as a place is a mixed-use West Texas city with a historic downtown, civic anchors including the Concho River Walk and its parks, and major employers anchored by Goodfellow Air Force Base, healthcare, government, and education. Homeownership predominates, and housing is more affordable than the state or national benchmark. The city is growing through new single-family subdivisions on its edges and adaptive reuse downtown, though the housing market has cooled recently.

The district itself is navigating substantial change. In November 2024, voters approved funding to raise minimum starting teacher pay and place an armed officer on every campus. In May 2025, voters passed a major bond for facilities, the first in years, funding a new middle school campus and renovations to high schools districtwide. Beginning in fall 2025, the district is adopting a new K-8 curriculum for reading and math that drew public debate over instructional methods. The district is also consolidating elementary schools as enrollment has declined, with two more closures planned by 2027.

For a family considering Alta Loma, the academic data presents a direct concern that warrants conversation with the school about what reading, math, and science instruction looks like, what support is available for students below grade level, and what changes or investments are planned. The broader district context shows recent investments in teacher pay and security, curriculum adoption underway, and ongoing facility changes that will shape the school environment in coming years.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 329%

School 29% · District 0% · ▲ 29 pts above district

▼ 11 pts below state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

Grade 515%

School 15% · District 35% · ▼ 20 pts below district

▼ 26 pts below state median · ▼ 17 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 335%

School 35% · District 11% · ▲ 24 pts above district

▼ 11 pts below state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

Grade 512%

School 12% · District 45% · ▼ 33 pts below district

▼ 42 pts below state median · ▼ 30 pts below county median

Science

Grade 50%

School 0% · District 20% · ▼ 20 pts below district

▼ 23 pts below state median · ▼ 19 pts below county median

This schoolSAN ANGELO ISD, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 5Lower-income10%Higher-income20%10 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 5Lower-income14%Higher-income20%6 pp gap