Cast Technical High School

Size

Cast Technical High School is the 10th largest of San Antonio ISD's 19 high schools; its 451 students are 1% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 0.9 miles away with a median enrollment of 117; Cast Technical 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 10 with 126 students, and its smallest is grade 9 with 91, against an average of 113 per grade. This year grade 12 has 30% more students than grade 9 (118 against 91). 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: 88.9% here and 89.8% across San Antonio ISD. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

64.1% 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 30.33 full-time-equivalent teachers for 451 students, Cast Technical High School has 14.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 451 students would have about 32.2 teachers, so Cast Technical High School has 1.9 fewer.

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

Location

Cast Technical High School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. Fox Technical High School (in the same district) is listed at the same location. Within 10 miles there are 85 other high schools, 39 of them within 5 miles.

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