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VETERANS MEMORIAL H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 25 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 15 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 14 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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 VETERANS MEMORIAL H S
VETERANS MEMORIAL H S is one of the substantial 9-12 campuss in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, part of JUDSON ISD, with 1,579 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so VETERANS MEMORIAL H S sits 98% larger than that benchmark.
VETERANS MEMORIAL H S is one of 36 schools operated by JUDSON ISD, a district that works with 23,539 students overall.
In terms of who attends, VETERANS MEMORIAL H S lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 58%. Beyond that, the school logs 18% White, 14% Black, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Bexar County as a whole.
Looking at school resources, The school employs 108 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 53% of students at VETERANS MEMORIAL H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Bexar County's rate of about 63%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, VETERANS MEMORIAL H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.9%, the actual is 49.5%, a residual of -1.4 points.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Bexar County put median household earnings sit near $72,341, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Bexar County's 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), VETERANS MEMORIAL H S is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: ROLLING MEADOWS EL, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, VETERANS MEMORIAL H S comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.3%.
VETERANS MEMORIAL H S operates from an outlying location.
Over the past 7-year window. VETERANS MEMORIAL H S's enrollment has expanded 53% since 2018, when it stood at 1,030 (now 1,579). Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 19% to 14%.
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