KAREN WAGNER H S

KAREN WAGNER H S is a four-year high school of sprawling scale in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, part of JUDSON ISD, caters to 2,423 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 204% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.

JUDSON ISD runs 36 schools in total, collectively educating 23,539 students. KAREN WAGNER H S is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, KAREN WAGNER H S reports that 61% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest reads as 26% Black, 8% White, 3% multiracial. Compared to Bexar County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, KAREN WAGNER H S has 154 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.8:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 76% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Bexar County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, KAREN WAGNER H S tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 40.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 47.1%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Bexar County indicate the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. KAREN WAGNER H S is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).

JAMES L MASTERS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around KAREN WAGNER H S. On composite proficiency, KAREN WAGNER H S comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 25.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at KAREN WAGNER H S has ticked up 14%, going from 2,124 students in 2018 to 2,423 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 57% to 61%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

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