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EAST CENTRAL HERITAGE MIDDLE
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 25 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 29 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 16 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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 EAST CENTRAL HERITAGE MIDDLE
Located at 8004 NEW SULPHUR SPRINGS RD, in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, EAST CENTRAL HERITAGE MIDDLE is a high-enrollment junior high that caters to 1,251 students (grades 6 through 8), one of the schools within EAST CENTRAL ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so EAST CENTRAL HERITAGE MIDDLE sits 95% above that benchmark.
Across the 16 schools in EAST CENTRAL ISD (11,497 students total), EAST CENTRAL HERITAGE MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
For racial and ethnic makeup, EAST CENTRAL HERITAGE MIDDLE shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 64% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 19% White, 11% Black, 5% multiracial.
Looking at school resources, EAST CENTRAL HERITAGE MIDDLE records 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Around 63% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, EAST CENTRAL HERITAGE MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.4%, the actual is 35.1%, a residual of -11.3 points.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Bexar County shows the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Bexar County runs 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), of which EAST CENTRAL HERITAGE MIDDLE is one.
Nearest neighbor: OAK CREST EL, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), EAST CENTRAL HERITAGE MIDDLE ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 29.3%.
EAST CENTRAL HERITAGE MIDDLE operates from a small-town location.
Over the past 7-year window. EAST CENTRAL HERITAGE MIDDLE's enrollment has rose 7% since 2018, when it stood at 1,172 (now 1,251). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 24% to 19%.
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