SAN ANTONIO STEAM ACADEMY
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 7 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 40 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 73% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
About SAN ANTONIO STEAM ACADEMY
SAN ANTONIO STEAM ACADEMY is a rural-scale 9-12 campus in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, one of the schools within SAN ANTONIO STEAM ACADEMY. The school hosts 139 students in grades 5 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so SAN ANTONIO STEAM ACADEMY sits 83% below that benchmark.
Operationally, SAN ANTONIO STEAM ACADEMY answers to SAN ANTONIO STEAM ACADEMY, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.
In terms of who attends, SAN ANTONIO STEAM ACADEMY records that the largest single group is Black, at 58% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 34% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% White. By comparison, Bexar County as a whole is about 8% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 2% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Bexar County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SAN ANTONIO STEAM ACADEMY falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 72.9%; this one comes in at 23.4%, -49.5 points off the demographic line.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Bexar County indicate median household earnings sit near $72,341, 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 SAN ANTONIO STEAM ACADEMY is one.
WILLIAM PASCHALL 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. On composite proficiency, SAN ANTONIO STEAM ACADEMY comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 30.5%.
The school occupies a metropolitan site. As a public charter, SAN ANTONIO STEAM ACADEMY runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
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