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ROBERT G COLE MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 84 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 53 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 38 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ROBERT G COLE MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL
Located at 4001 WINANS RD, in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, ROBERT G COLE MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL is an average-sized high school that educates 810 students (grades 6 through 12), part of FT SAM HOUSTON ISD.
FT SAM HOUSTON ISD comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 1,617 students; ROBERT G COLE MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL is among them.
Looking at the student body, ROBERT G COLE MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (36%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 34% White, 15% Black, 11% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is noticeably less Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 17% of students at ROBERT G COLE MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Bexar County (around 63%), the school's rate is south of typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ROBERT G COLE MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 66.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 70.3%.
In the broader community, census data for Bexar County shows median household earnings sit near $72,341, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Bexar County runs 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), of which ROBERT G COLE MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL is one.
Nearest neighbor: WILSHIRE EL, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ROBERT G COLE MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 41.5%.
Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ROBERT G COLE MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL has ticked up 11%, going from 727 students in 2018 to 810 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment declined from 21% to 15% over that span.
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