South San Antonio High School

Size

South San Antonio High School is the largest of South San Antonio ISD's 2 high schools; its 2,190 students are 29.3% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 1.8 miles away and have a median of 162 students, so South San Antonio High School is larger than most of them.

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 615 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 456, against an average of 548 per grade. This year grade 12 has 26% fewer students than grade 9 (456 against 615). 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 96% of enrollment, about the same share as across South San Antonio ISD (94%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

89.6% of students qualify 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

South San Antonio High School has 130.63 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 2,190 students would have about 156.4 teachers, so South San Antonio High School has 25.8 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 Alternative School, 0.6 miles away in the same district. There are 22 high schools within 5 miles and 69 within 10 miles.

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