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CAST TECH H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 29 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 25 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 9 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 46% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CAST TECH H S
CAST TECH H S is one of the compact 9-12 campuss in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, overseen by SAN ANTONIO ISD, with 451 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 43% leaner than the state mean of about 796.
Within SAN ANTONIO ISD, which oversees 100 schools and 47,623 students, CAST TECH H S is one campus in the system.
Demographically, CAST TECH H S logs that nearly all students (89%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school logs 6% White, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 60% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, CAST TECH H S has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.9:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 64% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
After controlling for student poverty, CAST TECH H S sits in the top 10% of Texas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 45.9%; actual is 61.3%, +15.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Bexar County indicate median household earnings sit near $72,341, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Bexar County runs 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), of which CAST TECH H S is one.
Nearest neighbor: ADVANCED LEARNING ACADEMY, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CAST TECH H S ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 47.6%.
Geographically, the school is in a downtown area. CAST TECH H S operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CAST TECH H S has rose 207%, going from 147 students in 2018 to 451 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.
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