Sst Hill Country College Prep High School

Size

Sst Hill Country College Prep High School is the largest of School of Science and Technology Discovery's 2 high schools; its 387 students are 6.4% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 3.8 miles away with a median enrollment of 2,646; Sst Hill Country College Prep 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 8 with 120 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 35, against an average of 65 per grade. This year grade 12 has 63% fewer students than grade 7 (38 against 102). 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: 57.9% here and 64.5% across School of Science and Technology Discovery. White students are next, at 24.3%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

43.9% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 64.4% across School of Science and Technology Discovery and a median of 63.8% for Texas high 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

With 30.45 full-time-equivalent teachers for 387 students, Sst Hill Country College Prep High School has 12.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 387 students would have about 27.6 teachers, so Sst Hill Country College Prep High School has 2.8 more.

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

Location

Sst Hill Country College Prep High School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other high school is O'Connor High School, 2.2 miles away in Northside ISD. Within 10 miles there are 28 other high schools, 6 of them within 5 miles.

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