Cast Med High School

Size

Cast Med High School is the 15th largest of San Antonio ISD's 19 high schools; its 213 students are 0.5% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 2.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 462; Cast Med High School is smaller 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 10 with 68 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 34, against an average of 53 per grade. This year grade 12 has 38% fewer students than grade 9 (34 against 55). 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: 83.6% here and 89.8% across San Antonio ISD. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

73.7% of its students are eligible 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

With 14.6 full-time-equivalent teachers for 213 students, Cast Med High School has 14.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 213 students would have about 15.2 teachers, so Cast Med High 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

Cast Med High School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other high school is Compass Rose Legacy, 0.9 miles away in Compass Rose Public Schools. Within 10 miles there are 62 other high schools, 16 of them within 5 miles.

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