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BYRON P STEELE II H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 11 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 36 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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 BYRON P STEELE II H S
BYRON P STEELE II H S is a 9-12 campus of high-enrollment scale in CIBOLO, Texas, overseen by SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD, instructing 2,793 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 251% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.
BYRON P STEELE II H S is one of 16 schools operated by SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD, a district that hosts 14,947 students overall.
On demographics, BYRON P STEELE II H S lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 26% White, 18% Black, 9% multiracial, 2% Asian.
In terms of school funding signals, BYRON P STEELE II H S shows 149 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.8:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 20% of students at BYRON P STEELE II H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Guadalupe County (around 45%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BYRON P STEELE II H S sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 65.3%; this one delivers 61.6%.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Guadalupe County) logs that median household earnings sit near $92,375, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Guadalupe County runs 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,977 students), of which BYRON P STEELE II H S is one.
WIEDERSTEIN EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. 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), BYRON P STEELE II H S ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 42.1%.
BYRON P STEELE II H S operates from a rural location.
Trend over the last 7 years. BYRON P STEELE II H S's enrollment has ticked up 17% since 2018, when it stood at 2,391 (now 2,793). Over the same period, the White share declined from 34% to 26%.
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