EAST CENTRAL H S

Set in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, EAST CENTRAL H S is a high-enrollment high school, one of the schools within EAST CENTRAL ISD. It teaches 3,362 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts it 322% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.

EAST CENTRAL ISD comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 11,497 students; EAST CENTRAL H S is among them.

On demographics, EAST CENTRAL H S logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 74% of enrollment. Other groups include 12% White, 11% Black, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 181 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, EAST CENTRAL H S tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 31.4%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Bexar County shows median household income runs about $72,341, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bexar County runs 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), of which EAST CENTRAL H S is one.

The closest other public school is EAST CENTRAL CAST LEAD H S, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, EAST CENTRAL H S comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 29.8%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 7%: 3,132 students in 2018 compared to 3,362 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 17% to 12%.

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