Great Hearts Western Hills

Size

Of the 9 schools in Great Hearts Texas, Great Hearts Western Hills is the 3rd largest, with 10.3% of the district's students. The 8 nearest schools are a median 6.8 miles away and have a median of 445 students, so Great Hearts Western Hills 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 6 with 144 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 42, against an average of 111 per grade. This year grade 11 has 67% fewer students than kindergarten (42 against 126). 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 70.3% of enrollment, a higher share than across Great Hearts Texas (40.3%). White students are next, at 17%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

41.3% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 27.5% across Great Hearts Texas and a median of 61.6% for Texas schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

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

Teachers

Great Hearts Western Hills has 70.33 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 18.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas school ratio of 11, a school with 1,326 students would have about 120.5 teachers, so Great Hearts Western Hills has 50.2 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas schools (11).

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 school is Harmony Science Academy (San Antonio), 0.9 miles away in Harmony Public Schools - South Texas. There is 1 school within 5 miles and 13 within 10 miles.

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