JAY H S

Set in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, JAY H S is a well-populated high school, one of the schools within NORTHSIDE ISD. It instructs 2,118 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 166% larger than the state mean of about 796.

NORTHSIDE ISD comprises 128 schools with combined enrollment of 100,435 students; JAY H S is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, JAY H S logs that 86% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest reads as 6% White, 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 60% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 155 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting JAY H S tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 72% of students at JAY H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Bexar County's rate of about 63%.

With demographic context factored in, JAY H S sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.6%; this one delivers 39.3%.

In the area at large, census data for Bexar County shows median household earnings sit near $72,341, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Bexar County's 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), JAY H S is one campus in the mix.

MEADOW VILLAGE EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JAY H S ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 32.3%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JAY H S has contracted 30%, going from 3,015 students in 2018 to 2,118 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.

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