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HARLANDALE H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 20 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 10 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% 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 HARLANDALE H S
HARLANDALE H S is one of the large high schools in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, overseen by HARLANDALE ISD, with 1,652 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 108% above the state mean of about 796.
Within HARLANDALE ISD, which oversees 21 schools and 11,564 students, HARLANDALE H S is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, HARLANDALE H S lists that nearly all students (98%) are Hispanic. By comparison, Bexar County as a whole is about 60% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 110 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.1:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Bexar County (around 63%), the school's rate is north of typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), HARLANDALE H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.2%, the actual is 37.3%, a residual of -2.0 points.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Bexar County indicate 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. HARLANDALE H S is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).
HARLANDALE MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HARLANDALE H S. On composite proficiency, HARLANDALE H S comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 32.4%.
The school occupies an inner-city site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 10%: 1,842 students in 2018 compared to 1,652 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.
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