MACARTHUR H S

As an expansive 9-12 campus in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, MACARTHUR H S educates 2,033 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within NORTH EAST ISD. That puts it 155% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.

Within NORTH EAST ISD, which oversees 75 schools and 56,420 students, MACARTHUR H S is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, MACARTHUR H S shows that 68% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 18% White, 7% Black, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, MACARTHUR H S has 128 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.9:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 57% of students at MACARTHUR H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MACARTHUR H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.1%, the actual is 52.9%, a residual of +3.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Bexar County shows the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Bexar County's 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), MACARTHUR H S is one campus in the mix.

REGENCY PLACE EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MACARTHUR H S at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 39.3%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MACARTHUR H S has declined 15%, going from 2,391 students in 2018 to 2,033 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 59% to 68%.

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