ALAN B SHEPARD MIDDLE

As a compact intermediate school in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, ALAN B SHEPARD MIDDLE educates 447 students from grades 6 through 8, overseen by SOUTH SAN ANTONIO ISD. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 30% smaller than typical.

ALAN B SHEPARD MIDDLE is one of 15 schools operated by SOUTH SAN ANTONIO ISD, a district that serves 7,987 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ALAN B SHEPARD MIDDLE lists that nearly all students (91%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 4% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

Looking at school resources, ALAN B SHEPARD MIDDLE shows 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting ALAN B SHEPARD MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 97% of students at ALAN B SHEPARD MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Bexar County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ALAN B SHEPARD MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.4%, the actual is 30.3%, a residual of -1.1 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Bexar County) records that median household earnings sit near $72,341, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bexar County runs 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), of which ALAN B SHEPARD MIDDLE is one.

Nearest neighbor: IDEA BRACKENRIDGE COLLEGE PREPARATORY, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ALAN B SHEPARD MIDDLE ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 27.9%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ALAN B SHEPARD MIDDLE has ticked down 20%, going from 556 students in 2018 to 447 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share declined from 96% to 91%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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