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SST ALAMO
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 39 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 21 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 SST ALAMO
SST ALAMO is one of the heavily attended K-5 schools in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, one of the schools within SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, with 848 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 63% bigger than the state mean of about 519.
SST ALAMO is one of 7 schools operated by SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, a district that caters to 5,602 students overall.
Demographically, SST ALAMO lists that 65% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 20% White, 10% Black, 3% multiracial.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, SST ALAMO has 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.0:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 54% of students at SST ALAMO qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Bexar County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SST ALAMO performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.2%, the actual is 52.1%, a residual of +1.8 points.
Around the school, Bexar County reports that the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. SST ALAMO is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).
The closest other public school is BASIS SAN ANTONIO PRI - NORTHEAST CAMPUS, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SST ALAMO comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 47.4%.
The school occupies a metropolitan site. SST ALAMO is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SST ALAMO has expanded 97%, going from 430 students in 2018 to 848 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 49% to 65%. Class-load math has grew: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 in 2025.
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