The top reported proficiency rate is 32% in Math. The lowest is 0% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Collins Garden El
Collins Garden Elementary sits on the near west side of San Antonio, part of San Antonio ISD, and serves prekindergarten through fifth grade. The enrollment is mid-sized for a K-5 campus, and the student body is almost entirely Hispanic. The vast majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, placing this squarely among the district's high-poverty campuses. English learner counts and special education rates were not available in the data provided.
The school administers Texas's STAAR assessments in grades three through five, and the results show a school where a meaningful share of students are working toward grade-level expectations but have not yet reached them. In reading and language arts, scores vary noticeably by grade: third graders tested in Spanish showed very few students reaching proficiency, while fourth and fifth graders performed somewhat better, with fifth grade coming closest to approaching two out of five students scoring at the meets-grade-level bar. Math results were similarly spread across grades, with no grade reaching half of students at the proficient level. Fifth-grade science, administered in Spanish, showed no students reaching the proficiency threshold. Across all tested subjects combined, the school's overall proficiency sits below the midpoint among districts in Bexar County, based on the county comparison set. Multi-year trend data was not available; only one year of results was reported, so there is no picture of whether scores are moving up or down. Parents who want context on trajectory should ask the school directly.
A few things are worth noting when reading those STAAR results. Several grade-level assessments were administered in Spanish, which reflects a bilingual or dual-language program structure, though specific program details were not included in the data. The tested groups in some grades are small enough that a single student's result can shift the apparent rate substantially, so caution is warranted in treating any one grade's number as definitive. That said, the low-end results, particularly in third-grade reading and fifth-grade science, are a pattern a parent would want to ask the school about directly.
San Antonio ISD has been through significant recent disruption. In late 2023 the board voted to close 15 schools and merge or redesign others, a publicly reported "rightsizing" driven by long-running enrollment decline. The closures affected a substantial number of students, and by the start of the following school year, a notable share of those displaced students had not returned to the district at all. Collins Garden itself remains open, but families should verify zoning and availability, given how much the district's campus map has changed. Separately, the district is publicly reported to be standardizing curriculum across campuses, replacing school-by-school variation in math and reading with a common district-wide approach and shifting literacy instruction toward a phonics-based model. That change was still rolling out as of the most recent reporting and may be reflected in future test results. A large bond measure passed by voters in 2020 is funding facility renovations across dozens of campuses, so some physical improvements may be underway or recently completed.
The neighborhood around Harriman Place sits in the older inner-city portion of San Antonio, not far from the downtown core. Home values in this zip code are well below both the Texas statewide and national medians, and they declined year over year based on the most recent data, making this one of the more affordable parts of the city to buy or rent. Rents are also below typical levels, and the rent-to-income burden here is modest relative to national norms. San Antonio broadly is among the fastest-growing metros in the country, publicly reported to have led the nation in new resident additions in a recent year, though that growth is concentrated more in outlying suburban areas like Stone Oak and Alamo Ranch than in the inner city where Collins Garden sits.
Graduation rate data does not apply here because the school serves only elementary grades. Program offerings were not included in the data available, so specifics about extracurriculars, before-and-after care, or enrichment are gaps a parent would need to fill by contacting the school.
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