CAST MED H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 67 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 6 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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%.
About CAST MED H S
CAST MED H S is one of the minimally staffed high schools in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, part of SAN ANTONIO ISD, with 213 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 73% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.
SAN ANTONIO ISD comprises 100 schools with combined enrollment of 47,623 students; CAST MED H S is among them.
On the student-mix side, CAST MED H S reports that nearly all students (84%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school reports 7% Black, 6% White, 3% Asian. By comparison, Bexar County as a whole is about 60% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, CAST MED H S records 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.6:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 74% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Bexar County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, CAST MED H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.7%, the actual is 54.0%, a residual of +12.3 points.
In the area at large, Bexar County reports that median household income runs about $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%. CAST MED H S is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).
Nearest neighbor: CAST IMAGINE MIDDLE, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CAST MED H S at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 28.2%.
CAST MED H S operates from a high-density location. CAST MED H S is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
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