SST NORTHWEST

As a mid-sized elementary campus in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, SST NORTHWEST works with 661 students from grades pre-K through 7, overseen by SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DISCOVERY. That puts it 27% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DISCOVERY runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 6,084 students. SST NORTHWEST is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, SST NORTHWEST reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 61%. The remainder comes out to 13% Black, 13% White, 9% Asian, 4% multiracial. Compared to Bexar County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, SST NORTHWEST logs 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.4:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, SST NORTHWEST performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.9%, the actual is 57.9%, a residual of -0.0 points.

In the surrounding community, 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. SST NORTHWEST is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).

TAFT H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SST NORTHWEST comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 50.6%.

SST NORTHWEST operates from a residential location. As a public charter, SST NORTHWEST runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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