SAMUEL CLEMENS H S

SAMUEL CLEMENS H S is one of the expansive senior highs in SCHERTZ, Texas, part of SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD, with 2,589 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 225% larger than the state mean of about 796.

Across the 16 schools in SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (14,947 students total), SAMUEL CLEMENS H S accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, SAMUEL CLEMENS H S records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 32% White, 11% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Guadalupe County as a whole is about 39% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, SAMUEL CLEMENS H S shows 140 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 28% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Guadalupe County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, SAMUEL CLEMENS H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.6%, the actual is 65.4%, a residual of +3.8 points.

In the broader community, Guadalupe County reports that the typical household earns roughly $92,375 per year, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Guadalupe County's 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,977 students), SAMUEL CLEMENS H S is one campus in the mix.

SCHERTZ EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SAMUEL CLEMENS H S. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SAMUEL CLEMENS H S at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 43.2%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 3%: 2,657 students in 2018 compared to 2,589 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 42% to 32% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 in 2025.

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