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TRAVIS EARLY COLLEGE H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 87 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 41 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 20 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 41 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 44% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 28 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About TRAVIS EARLY COLLEGE H S
As a close-knit four-year high school in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, TRAVIS EARLY COLLEGE H S enrolls 408 students from grades 9 through 12, run under SAN ANTONIO ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 49% leaner than the state mean of about 796.
TRAVIS EARLY COLLEGE H S is one of 100 schools operated by SAN ANTONIO ISD, a district that serves 47,623 students overall.
On the student-mix side, TRAVIS EARLY COLLEGE H S records that 94% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school records 2% White, 2% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, TRAVIS EARLY COLLEGE H S has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 68% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
With demographic context factored in, TRAVIS EARLY COLLEGE H S sits in the top 10% of Texas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 44.0%; actual is 72.1%, +28.1 points clear of the demographic baseline.
Across the wider county, Bexar County reports that the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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), TRAVIS EARLY COLLEGE H S is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is GREAT HEARTS MONTE VISTA, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around TRAVIS EARLY COLLEGE H S. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts TRAVIS EARLY COLLEGE H S at 1st of 6; the average score across the group is 51.7%.
The campus sits in a metropolitan setting. TRAVIS EARLY COLLEGE H S operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
Trend over the last 7 years. TRAVIS EARLY COLLEGE H S's enrollment has rose 5% since 2018, when it stood at 389 (now 408). Class-load math has tightened: from 20.5:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 in 2025.
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