WHITTIER MIDDLE

As a moderately sized junior high in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, WHITTIER MIDDLE enrolls 656 students from grades 6 through 8, part of SAN ANTONIO ISD.

SAN ANTONIO ISD comprises 100 schools with combined enrollment of 47,623 students; WHITTIER MIDDLE is among them.

On demographics, WHITTIER MIDDLE reports that nearly all students (97%) are Hispanic. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Bexar County's rate of about 63%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, WHITTIER MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.6%; this one delivers 27.3%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Bexar County indicate median household income runs about $72,341, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bexar County runs 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), of which WHITTIER MIDDLE is one.

Nearest neighbor: FRANKLIN EL, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, WHITTIER MIDDLE comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 20%: 825 students in 2018 compared to 656 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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