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SOUTH SAN ANTONIO H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About SOUTH SAN ANTONIO H S
Set in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, SOUTH SAN ANTONIO H S is a sizable high school, part of SOUTH SAN ANTONIO ISD. It educates 2,190 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so SOUTH SAN ANTONIO H S sits 175% larger than that benchmark.
Within SOUTH SAN ANTONIO ISD, which oversees 15 schools and 7,987 students, SOUTH SAN ANTONIO H S is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, SOUTH SAN ANTONIO H S logs that 96% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 2% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.
On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 131 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.8:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 90% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Bexar County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, SOUTH SAN ANTONIO H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.7%, the actual is 36.3%, a residual of +1.5 points.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Bexar County indicate the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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), SOUTH SAN ANTONIO H S is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SOUTH SAN ANTONIO H S ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 32.7%.
SOUTH SAN ANTONIO H S operates from a downtown location.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 16%: 2,606 students in 2018 compared to 2,190 in 2025.
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