SAN ANTONIO — Once the 2025-26 school year concludes, Carvajal Elementary School in San Antonio will permanently shut its doors.
The San Antonio ISD School Board voted unanimously on Tuesday to close the school following concerns over low enrollment numbers and academic performance. Last year, the school district shuttered 15 campuses, partially because of low enrollment.
Over the past two years, Carvajal Elementary enrollment dropped by 88 students.
“The school has been an F-rated campus for the last three years,” said Dr. Shawn Bird, San Antonio ISD deputy superintendent, in mid-December. “That really is because the other two reasons: our bilingual program there is very small, and enrollment has continued to decline.”
Students in that small bilingual program will attend Lorenzo De Zavala Elementary School for the next school year, the school board announced in its Tuesday meeting. Monolingual program students will go to Barkley-Ruiz Elementary School.
If desired, parents can send their children to another San Antonio ISD campus of their choosing.
Prior to the closure decision, Bird said Carvajal Elementary’s F-rating put the district at risk of a Texas Education Agency takeover — a move that leaders like Bird wanted to avoid.