ESSENCE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL

Located at 723 SE LOOP 410, in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, ESSENCE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL is a small primary school that serves 365 students (grades pre-K through 8), operated by ESSENCE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL. That puts it 30% smaller than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

ESSENCE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL sits inside ESSENCE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

Demographically, ESSENCE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL logs that 71% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school lists 27% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 8%.

On the resource side, ESSENCE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL records 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting ESSENCE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 99% of students at ESSENCE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Bexar County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, ESSENCE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 31.2%; this one comes in at 15.1%, -16.1 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Bexar County put the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. ESSENCE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).

HOUSTON H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ESSENCE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ESSENCE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 26.2%.

The school occupies a city-core site. ESSENCE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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