O'CONNOR H S

Located at 12221 LESLIE RD, in HELOTES, Texas, O'CONNOR H S is a sprawling high school that hosts 2,535 students (grades 9 through 12), part of NORTHSIDE ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 218% larger than the state mean of about 796.

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

Demographically, O'CONNOR H S lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 63% of enrollment. Other groups include 30% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 148 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting O'CONNOR H S higher than the state norm the norm. About 23% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Bexar County (around 63%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, O'CONNOR H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.7%, the actual is 71.1%, a residual of +7.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Bexar County put the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Bexar County runs 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), of which O'CONNOR H S is one.

KUENTZ EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 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 O'CONNOR H S at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 52.9%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. O'CONNOR H S's enrollment has fell 24% since 2018, when it stood at 3,327 (now 2,535). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 57% to 63%. Class-load math has fell: from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 in 2025.

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