{"id":451069,"date":"2026-09-29T11:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T11:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/451069\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T11:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T11:50:09","slug":"new-elementary-school-opens-for-far-west-side-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/451069\/","title":{"rendered":"New elementary school opens for far West Side families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After years in the making and millions of dollars spent, the Goddard School of San Antonio-Potranco location is officially open<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\"  loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/YGAMTX5ROFH2FI4QOCYUV5K6OQ.jpg\"\/>Image of crayons and exercise books against blackboard  (Copyright 2025 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">SAN ANTONIO \u2013 The Goddard School of San Antonio-Potranco is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2026\/08\/27\/couple-builds-new-school-giving-far-west-side-families-closer-options-for-childcare-needs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">officially open<\/a> for families living and working on the far West Side who need more early childhood education options.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The goal was to give families <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2026\/08\/27\/couple-builds-new-school-giving-far-west-side-families-closer-options-for-childcare-needs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a state-of-the-art option for early childhood development<\/a> with a hands-on education and high scores for curriculum and safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Owner Akbar Bhaidani said Monday, Sept. 28, they opened with about 50 families enrolled. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The school has a 200-kid capacity, so there is still room for more. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">If you are living on this side of town or any side and are looking for closer options for your child\u2019s education, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goddardschool.com\/schools\/tx\/san-antonio\/san-antonio-potranco?utm_source=yext&amp;utm_medium=business_listings&amp;utm_campaign=school&amp;utm_content=main_button&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawT9KoJwZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAGJyaWQRMWwwT3JPMWpKTVlOMG5OeDlzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEekQhW5DoevDpuZ0hbuq191ChGDLqd5PwztKNEbvOXo97Oz02MnfYuI122ohY_aem_mBWObBgSw7RK_mXic-JxbA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Goddard School of San Antonio-Potranco\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Read also:<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf ilkOIf copyright\">Copyright 2026 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorJaphanie Gray headshot<img alt=\"\"  loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/XNYRFE77SVATVHDWDGV63VGPMI.jpg\"\/><a class=\"sc-bmzYkS fERtCt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/team\/44ULARSVLBEVVNOSC6YKTEKGRA\/\" title=\"View Japhanie Gray&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Japhanie Gray<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf ctDavV cigBRW\">Japhanie Gray is an anchor on Good Morning San Antonio and Good Morning San Antonio at 9 a.m. The award-winning journalist rejoined KSAT in August 2024 after previously working as a reporter on KSAT&#8217;s Nightbeat from 2018 to 2021. She also highlights extraordinary stories in her series, What&#8217;s Up South Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After years in the making and millions of dollars spent, the Goddard School of San Antonio-Potranco location is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[163,3453,6527,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-451069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-education","tag-far-west-side","tag-ksatkids","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}