DEMOCRACY PREP AT STEWART ACADEMY

DEMOCRACY PREP AT STEWART ACADEMY, a moderately sized elementary school in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, part of SAN ANTONIO ISD, caters to 645 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so DEMOCRACY PREP AT STEWART ACADEMY sits 24% bigger than that benchmark.

Within SAN ANTONIO ISD, which oversees 100 schools and 47,623 students, DEMOCRACY PREP AT STEWART ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

On demographics, DEMOCRACY PREP AT STEWART ACADEMY lists that nearly all students (89%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 5% Black, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 60% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, DEMOCRACY PREP AT STEWART ACADEMY shows 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.0:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Bexar County's rate of about 63%.

With demographic context factored in, DEMOCRACY PREP AT STEWART ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.8%, the actual is 19.9%, a residual of -12.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Bexar County shows median household earnings sit near $72,341, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Bexar County's 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), DEMOCRACY PREP AT STEWART ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is HIGHLANDS H S, roughly 0.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DEMOCRACY PREP AT STEWART ACADEMY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DEMOCRACY PREP AT STEWART ACADEMY at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 29.1%.

DEMOCRACY PREP AT STEWART ACADEMY operates from a city-core location. DEMOCRACY PREP AT STEWART ACADEMY is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 44%: 448 students in 2018 compared to 645 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 11% to 5%.

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