GREAT HEARTS INVICTUS

Set in HELOTES, Texas, GREAT HEARTS INVICTUS is an expansive unified-grade school, run under GREAT HEARTS TEXAS. It serves 918 students across grades K through 9. Compared to the state average of about 485 students per school, that is 89% larger than typical.

Across the 13 schools in GREAT HEARTS TEXAS (12,926 students total), GREAT HEARTS INVICTUS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, GREAT HEARTS INVICTUS reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 55% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 32% White, 5% Asian, 4% Black, 4% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, GREAT HEARTS INVICTUS shows 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.7:1 average. About 21% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Bexar County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, GREAT HEARTS INVICTUS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.5%, the actual is 54.3%, a residual of -10.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Bexar County) records that the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Bexar County's 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), GREAT HEARTS INVICTUS is one campus in the mix.

KUENTZ EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GREAT HEARTS INVICTUS. On composite proficiency, GREAT HEARTS INVICTUS comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 55.5%.

The school occupies a downtown site. GREAT HEARTS INVICTUS 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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