GREAT HEARTS FOREST HEIGHTS

GREAT HEARTS FOREST HEIGHTS operates as a substantial K-12 campus in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, operated by GREAT HEARTS TEXAS. Current enrollment sits at 1,335 students spanning grades K through 11. That puts it 175% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 485 students.

GREAT HEARTS TEXAS comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 12,926 students; GREAT HEARTS FOREST HEIGHTS is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, GREAT HEARTS FOREST HEIGHTS lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 30% White, 25% Asian, 2% Black. By comparison, Bexar County as a whole is about 60% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably less Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, GREAT HEARTS FOREST HEIGHTS has 73 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.7:1 average. Roughly 20% of students at GREAT HEARTS FOREST HEIGHTS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Bexar County's rate of about 63%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, GREAT HEARTS FOREST HEIGHTS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.3%, the actual is 53.7%, a residual of -11.6 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Bexar County put the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 GREAT HEARTS FOREST HEIGHTS is one.

The closest other public school is MCDERMOTT EL, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GREAT HEARTS FOREST HEIGHTS ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 39.2%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. GREAT HEARTS FOREST HEIGHTS operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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