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Enrollment
1,706
High
DISTRICT 699 · STATE 796
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SAN ANTONIO ISD·NCES 483873004368
Jefferson High School
723 DONALDSON AVE, SAN ANTONIO, TX 78201 · (210) 438-6570 · Bexar County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,706 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 18% of Texas public high schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public high schools
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
111 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
88%
1,495 students
DISTRICT 88% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 454 | 27% |
| Grade 10 | 443 | 26% |
| Grade 11 | 381 | 22% |
| Grade 12 | 428 | 25% |
Student demographics
10%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 19% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
37.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +16.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
30.0%
TX avg 45.3% . -7.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 30 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 16 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 7 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 3.0% | 34.0% | 23.0% | 40.0% |
| Mathematics | 10.0% | 20.0% | 48.0% | 22.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 37.0% | 30.0% |
| 2024-25 | 31.0% | 30.0% |
| 2023-24 | 39.0% | 21.0% |
| 2022-23 | 28.0% | 10.0% |
| 2021-22 | 21.0% | 32.0% |
| 2020-21 | 21.0% | 37.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
37.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.3%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Jefferson High School
Jefferson High School's state test result (37.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jefferson High School this school | 1,706 | 87.6% | 37.0% |
| Horizon High School EL PASO | 1,469 | 87.1% | 46.3% |
| Edison High School SAN ANTONIO | 1,360 | 88.5% | 38.0% |
| Burbank High School SAN ANTONIO | 1,405 | 88.3% | 32.0% |
| Southside High School SAN ANTONIO | 1,772 | 85.7% | 40.7% |
| Roma High School ROMA | 1,721 | 86.8% | 51.7% |
Matched among Texas high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Jefferson High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Bexar County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #1,214 of 1,385 | #64 of 81 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 30.0% | #1,100 of 1,425 ▼ 118 | #51 of 82 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #1,293 of 1,425 ▲ 30 | #65 of 82 ▲ 9 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +14.5pp | #638 of 1,184 | #35 of 75 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,706 | #406 of 2,107 | #28 of 128 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.4:1 | #801 of 1,344 | #35 of 78 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 10.1% | #1,209 of 1,346 | #71 of 79 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.6% | #243 of 1,522 | #19 of 90 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.0% | #498 of 557 | #28 of 32 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,706
+90 (+6%) vs 2020
-19% since 1990-91, when it was 2,111
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
was 14.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,706 | 110.8 | 15.4:1 | 88% (1,495) |
| 2023-24 | 1,625 | 121.3 | 13.4:1 | 89% (1,449) |
| 2022-23 | 1,686 | 117.1 | 14.4:1 | 87% (1,462) |
| 2020-21 | 1,616 | 113 | 14.3:1 | 86% (1,392) |
| 2017-18 | 1,740 | 105.5 | 16.5:1 | 85% (1,487) |
| 2015-16 | 1,745 | 104 | 16.8:1 | 89% (1,557) |
| 2010-11 | 1,935 | 120 | 16.1:1 | 50% (961) |
| 2000-01 | 1,839 | 107 | 17.2:1 | 86% (1,585) |
| 1990-91 | 2,111 | 105 | 20.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Jefferson High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (1,740 to 1,706); teachers up 5% (105.5 to 110.8).
About Jefferson High School
As a large high school, Jefferson High School serves students in SAN ANTONIO, Texas. Federal data show 1,706 students enrolled in grades 9 through 12 in 2024-25. That compares with an average of about 796 students for high schools in Texas.
Jefferson High School is one of the 100 schools that make up SAN ANTONIO ISD (47,623 students in total).
The share of students at Jefferson High School who are Hispanic is 95%. Smaller groups are 2% White and 2% Black. County-wide, 60% of Bexar County residents are Hispanic. A diversity index of 10% means there is a 10% chance two randomly chosen students at Jefferson High School are from different groups.
Teacher count: 110.8 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 15.4:1. The 15.1:1 average for high schools in Texas is close to this figure. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 88%. Across public schools in Bexar County, the average is 63%.
Among Texas public high schools, Jefferson High School outscored 18%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Jefferson High School is within a point of the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 37.0% actual, 36.3% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Texas.
The county, Bexar County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $72,341 a year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Bexar County has 638 public schools with about 368,487 students, including Jefferson High School.
About 0.5 miles separate Jefferson High School from the closest public school, Young Women's Leadership Academy. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Jefferson High School's average proficiency of 37.0% compares with 38.2% for its nearest scored neighbors.
The NCES locale for Jefferson High School is City: Large, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. Jefferson High School operates as a charter school, which is publicly funded and run under a charter.
In 2020-21, Jefferson High School enrolled 1,616 students. By 2024-25, that number had grown to 1,706. The student-to-teacher ratio increased from 14.3:1 in 2020-21 to 15.4:1 in 2024-25.
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Bexar County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,067,341
Census ACS
Median income
$72,341
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
638
368,487 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SAN ANTONIO ISD
- Lanier High SchoolHigh · 1,620 students
- Brackenridge High SchoolHigh · 1,593 students
- Highlands High SchoolHigh · 1,478 students
- Burbank High SchoolHigh · 1,405 students
- Edison High SchoolHigh · 1,360 students
- Advanced Learning AcademyCombined · 1,087 students
Other schools in SAN ANTONIO
- Reagan High SchoolHigh · 3,403 students
- East Central High SchoolHigh · 3,362 students
- Johnson High SchoolHigh · 3,196 students
- Brennan High SchoolHigh · 2,965 students
- Harlan High SchoolHigh · 2,778 students
- Clark High SchoolHigh · 2,750 students
Other Jefferson High schools
19 other US public schools in 16 states are named Jefferson High. Jefferson High School is the 4th largest of the 20.
- Jefferson High SchoolEL PASO, TX · 998 students
- Jefferson High SchoolJEFFERSON, TX · 383 students
- Jefferson High SchoolRockford, IL · 2,173 students
- Jefferson High SchoolLafayette, IN · 2,042 students
- Jefferson High School - 67Sioux Falls, SD · 1,888 students
Nearby schools
- Young Women's Leadership Academy0.5 mi · 534
- Whittier Middle School0.9 mi · 656
- Franklin Elementary School0.9 mi · 409
- Madison Elementary School1.0 mi · 457
- Maverick Elementary School1.0 mi · 518
- Woodlawn Academy1.0 mi · 595
Frequently asked questions
About Jefferson High SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Jefferson High School?
Jefferson High School enrolls approximately 1,706 students in grades 09-12.
Is Jefferson High School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Jefferson High School is a high school covering grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Jefferson High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Jefferson High School is approximately 15.4:1 (111 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Jefferson High School?
At Jefferson High School, the student body is approximately 2% White, 95% Hispanic, 2% Black, 0% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Is Jefferson High School public or private?
Jefferson High School is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by SAN ANTONIO ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.