SST HILL COUNTRY

Set in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, SST HILL COUNTRY is a reasonably sized primary school, run under SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DISCOVERY. It instructs 675 students across grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so SST HILL COUNTRY sits 30% bigger than that benchmark.

SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DISCOVERY comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 6,084 students; SST HILL COUNTRY is among them.

Demographically, SST HILL COUNTRY records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 70% of enrollment; the rest looks like 14% White, 7% Black, 6% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 60% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, SST HILL COUNTRY logs 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 47% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Bexar County's rate of about 63%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SST HILL COUNTRY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.3%, the actual is 55.4%, a residual of +2.1 points.

Around the school, Bexar County reports that the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Bexar County runs 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), of which SST HILL COUNTRY is one.

SST HILL COUNTRY COLLEGE PREP H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SST HILL COUNTRY ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 51.0%.

The school occupies a downtown site. SST HILL COUNTRY operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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