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ZACHRY MIDDLE
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 36 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 26 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 20 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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 ZACHRY MIDDLE
ZACHRY MIDDLE operates as a roomy middle-grades school in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, operated by NORTHSIDE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 1,043 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 62% bigger than the state mean of about 643.
Across the 128 schools in NORTHSIDE ISD (100,435 students total), ZACHRY MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, ZACHRY MIDDLE reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 78%. Beyond that, the school shows 11% White, 6% Black, 2% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.
In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. About 60% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, ZACHRY MIDDLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 47.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.7%.
In the surrounding community, Bexar County reports that median household income runs about $72,341, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. ZACHRY MIDDLE is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).
KNOWLTON EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ZACHRY MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, ZACHRY MIDDLE comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 40.7%.
The school occupies a high-density site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ZACHRY MIDDLE has increased 10%, going from 948 students in 2018 to 1,043 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 in 2025.
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