Alternative School

Size

Alternative School is the smallest of South San Antonio ISD's 2 high schools; its 62 students are 0.8% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 1.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 392; Alternative School is smaller than most of them.

NCES lists it as an alternative school: one that serves students whose needs a regular school may not meet, or that offers a non-traditional program alongside regular schools.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 9 with 20 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 4, against an average of 9 per grade. This year grade 12 has 43% fewer students than grade 6 (4 against 7). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 98.4% here and 94% across South San Antonio ISD.

83.9% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 91.6% across South San Antonio ISD and a median of 63.8% for Texas high schools. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 3.63 full-time-equivalent teachers for 62 students, Alternative School has 17.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 62 students would have about 4.4 teachers, so Alternative School has about as many as that.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas high schools (14).

Location

Alternative School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other high school is IDEA Ewing Halsell College Preparatory, 0.5 miles away in IDEA Public Schools. Within 10 miles there are 67 other high schools, 21 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.