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Enrollment
508
Elementary
DISTRICT 646 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DISCOVERY·NCES 480140012140
Sst Discovery
5707 BANDERA RD, SAN ANTONIO, TX 78238 · (210) 543-1111 · Bexar County
GRADES PK–07ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL508 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 45% of Texas public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.8:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
70%
354 students
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 62 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 67 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 54 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 61 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 54 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 40 | 8% |
| Grade 6 | 51 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 44 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (67) is 52% larger than its 7th grade class (44).
Student demographics
40%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Sst Discovery→Sst Sugar Land College Prep High School
Based on grade levels within SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DISCOVERY. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
57.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +39.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
39.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +23.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 39 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 39 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 23 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 25.0% | 32.0% | 20.0% | 23.0% |
| Mathematics | 17.0% | 22.0% | 31.0% | 30.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 57.0% | 39.0% |
| 2024-25 | 54.0% | 41.0% |
| 2023-24 | 49.0% | 40.0% |
| 2022-23 | 56.0% | 47.0% |
| 2021-22 | 54.0% | 38.0% |
| 2020-21 | 18.0% | 16.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
43.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.9%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Sst Discovery
Sst Discovery's state test result (43.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sst Discovery this school | 508 | 69.7% | 43.6% |
| Laura Welch Bush Elementary School HOUSTON | 555 | 67.9% | 63.8% |
| Parmer Lane Elementary School AUSTIN | 488 | 75.6% | 39.1% |
| Boone Elementary School SAN ANTONIO | 458 | 65.9% | 32.9% |
| Evers Elementary School SAN ANTONIO | 580 | 66.9% | 33.0% |
| Westcliff Elementary School FORT WORTH | 534 | 71.2% | 42.4% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Sst Discovery ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Bexar County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.6% | #2,132 of 4,401 | #102 of 313 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #2,937 of 4,466 ▼ 420 | #152 of 317 ▼ 28 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #1,687 of 4,466 ▲ 286 | #95 of 317 ▲ 9 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.5pp | #775 of 3,998 | #64 of 282 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 508 | #2,452 of 4,938 | #175 of 346 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #947 of 4,622 | #80 of 314 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 39.8% | #3,057 of 4,628 | #146 of 314 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 69.7% | #2,580 of 4,789 | #203 of 327 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.2% | #976 of 1,307 | #51 of 70 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
508
-107 (-17%) vs 2020
+38% since 2010-11, when it was 369
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 14.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 508 | 38.5 | 13.2:1 | 70% (354) |
| 2023-24 | 554 | 45.5 | 12.2:1 | 71% (393) |
| 2022-23 | 530 | 46.8 | 11.3:1 | 69% (365) |
| 2020-21 | 615 | 42 | 14.6:1 | 59% (362) |
| 2017-18 | 483 | 30.9 | 15.6:1 | 63% (305) |
| 2015-16 | 446 | 28 | 15.9:1 | 59% (261) |
| 2010-11 | 369 | 27 | 13.7:1 | 63% (233) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sst Discovery.
Since 2017-18: students up 5% (483 to 508); teachers up 24% (30.9 to 38.5).
About Sst Discovery
Sst Discovery is a mid-sized elementary school serving families in SAN ANTONIO, Texas. The school covers pre-K through 7 and reported 508 students in 2024-25.
Sst Discovery is one of the 8 schools that make up SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DISCOVERY (6,084 students in total).
The student body at Sst Discovery is 77% Hispanic. The rest of enrollment is 8% Asian, 7% White, 5% Black, and 2% multiracial. Among all residents of Bexar County, the Hispanic share is about 60%. A diversity index of 40% means there is a 40% chance two randomly chosen students at Sst Discovery are from different groups.
The student-to-teacher ratio at Sst Discovery is 13.2:1, based on 38.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Texas, 15.1:1, is higher. Sst Discovery counts 70% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among Texas public elementary schools, Sst Discovery outscored 45%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
Sst Discovery sits between the top and bottom 10% of Texas schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 43.6% and a predicted 43.9%.
For the population of Bexar County, the median household earns about $72,341 a year, about 32% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. Sst Discovery shares Bexar County with 637 other public schools.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Neff Middle School, is about 0.4 miles. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. On state test proficiency, Sst Discovery ranks 3rd in a group of 8 nearby schools.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics. Sst Discovery is a publicly funded charter school.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 17% decline, from 615 to 508. The ratio of students to teachers went from 14.6:1 to 13.2:1 over the same years.
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Bexar County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,067,341
Census ACS
Median income
$72,341
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
638
368,487 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DISCOVERY
- Sst Corpus ChristiCombined · 2,343 students
- Sst SugarlandElementary · 739 students
- Sst Hill CountryElementary · 675 students
- Sst NorthwestElementary · 661 students
- Sst AdvancementElementary · 646 students
- Sst Hill Country College Prep High SchoolHigh · 387 students
Other schools in SAN ANTONIO
- Reagan High SchoolHigh · 3,403 students
- East Central High SchoolHigh · 3,362 students
- Johnson High SchoolHigh · 3,196 students
- Brennan High SchoolHigh · 2,965 students
- Harlan High SchoolHigh · 2,778 students
- Clark High SchoolHigh · 2,750 students
Nearby schools
- Neff Middle School0.4 mi · 810
- The Gathering Place0.5 mi · 555
- Nisd Pksa0.6 mi · 45
- Powell Elementary School0.7 mi · 418
- IDEA Ingram Hills Academy1.0 mi · 588
- IDEA Ingram Hills College Preparatory1.0 mi · 543
Frequently asked questions
About Sst DiscoveryHow many students attend Sst Discovery?
Sst Discovery enrolls approximately 508 students in grades PK-07.
What grades does Sst Discovery serve?
Sst Discovery serves grades PK-07.
How many students per teacher at Sst Discovery?
Approximately 13.2:1 students per teacher at Sst Discovery.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Sst Discovery?
At Sst Discovery, the student body is approximately 7% White, 77% Hispanic, 5% Black, 8% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Sst Discovery?
Sst Discovery is overseen by SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DISCOVERY in Bexar County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.