Burbank High School

Size

Of the 19 high schools in San Antonio ISD, Burbank High School is the 5th largest, with 3.2% of the district's students. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 1.7 miles away and have a median of 218 students, so Burbank High School is larger than most of them.

As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

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 409 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 318, against an average of 351 per grade. This year grade 12 has 20% fewer students than grade 9 (329 against 409). 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

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 97.5% of enrollment, a higher share than across San Antonio ISD (89.8%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

88.3% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 87.2% across 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

Burbank High School has 84.06 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 1,405 students would have about 100.4 teachers, so Burbank High School has 16.3 fewer.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other high school is KIPP University Prep High School, 1.1 miles away in KIPP Texas Public Schools. There are 42 high schools within 5 miles and 76 within 10 miles.

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