The top reported proficiency rate is 8% in English language arts. The lowest is 0% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Storm El
Storm Elementary sits on Brady Boulevard in the 78207 zip code, a dense inner-city San Antonio neighborhood served by San Antonio ISD. The school is a charter-status campus within the district, running prekindergarten through fifth grade, and the enrollment is small relative to a full PK-5 school. Nearly every student qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, and the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic, reflecting the character of this West Side neighborhood. Data on English learner counts and special education identification rates were not available in what was provided.
The STAAR results from the most recent tested year are a serious concern and a parent asking about academic performance deserves a direct answer. Across third, fourth, and fifth grade in math, proficiency was at or near zero. Reading and language arts results were similarly very low across all three tested grades, with only a small fraction of students reaching the proficient threshold in any single grade. Fifth-grade science proficiency was also at zero. Placed against the districts in Bexar County, Storm's overall proficiency index falls in the bottom quartile of that group, below the floor of what every other district in the county reported. A parent considering this school for its academic program should ask the school directly about current intervention supports, instructional changes underway, and what monitoring the district has in place.
That context matters because San Antonio ISD itself is in the middle of significant academic restructuring. Following district-wide poor STAAR outcomes, the district has publicly moved to standardize curriculum across campuses, replacing campus-by-campus variation with a common approach in math and reading and shifting literacy instruction toward a phonics-based model aligned with what is often called the science of teaching reading. Whether and how those changes have reached Storm specifically is worth asking the school to explain. Separately, the district made a major round of school closures in late 2023, shutting roughly a dozen and a half campuses as part of a rightsizing response to long-term enrollment decline. Storm appears to remain open, but the closures reshuffled attendance boundaries and student populations across much of the district, and some families affected by those closures have not re-enrolled in the district at all.
On the facility side, San Antonio ISD voters approved a substantial bond measure in 2020, described publicly as the largest in district and city history, covering renovations at dozens of campuses and a major technology investment. Whether Storm is among the campuses receiving work under that bond was not specified in the available data.
The housing market surrounding the school tells its own story. Home values in this zip code are well below both the Texas state median and the national median, which makes this one of the more accessible entry points into San Antonio homeownership. Rents have been rising year over year at a pace faster than the typical national shelter cost trend, though the rent-to-income burden here remains relatively modest compared to many urban markets. San Antonio broadly is one of the fastest-growing metros in the country, adding residents at a pace that has led national rankings in recent years, and the city has also led in affordable housing construction. The 78207 neighborhood reflects older inner-city housing stock rather than the new-construction suburban edge of the metro.
No program offerings, attendance data, chronic absenteeism rates, or staffing information were available for Storm. A graduation rate is not applicable here because the school serves only elementary grades. Trend data across multiple years was also absent, so it is not possible from this data alone to say whether the low proficiency results represent a recent decline or a longer pattern.
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