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BRACKENRIDGE H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 30 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 22 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 26 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About BRACKENRIDGE H S
As a sizable senior high in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, BRACKENRIDGE H S caters to 1,593 students from grades 9 through 12, run under SAN ANTONIO ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so BRACKENRIDGE H S sits 100% bigger than that benchmark.
SAN ANTONIO ISD runs 100 schools in total, collectively educating 47,623 students. BRACKENRIDGE H S is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, BRACKENRIDGE H S logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (93%). Beyond that, the school shows 3% Black, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 60% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, BRACKENRIDGE H S lists 105 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.1:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 85% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Bexar County's rate of about 63%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BRACKENRIDGE H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.9%, the actual is 40.5%, a residual of +3.6 points.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Bexar County put median household earnings sit near $72,341, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Bexar County's 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), BRACKENRIDGE H S is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: BONHAM ACADEMY, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BRACKENRIDGE H S. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BRACKENRIDGE H S ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 28.3%.
The campus sits in a downtown setting.
Over the past 7-year window. BRACKENRIDGE H S's enrollment has declined 7% since 2018, when it stood at 1,717 (now 1,593). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.
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