Sst Hill Country

Size

Sst Hill Country is the 2nd largest of School of Science and Technology Discovery's 5 elementary schools; its 675 students are 11.1% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.2 miles away and have a median of 437 students, so Sst Hill Country 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 3 with 105 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 62, against an average of 84 per grade. This year grade 6 has 29% more students than kindergarten (88 against 68). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 62 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 70.2% of enrollment, a higher share than across School of Science and Technology Discovery (64.5%). White students are next, at 14.2%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

47.1% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 64.4% across School of Science and Technology Discovery and a median of 72% for Texas elementary 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

Sst Hill Country has 38.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 675 students would have about 45.6 teachers, so Sst Hill Country has 7.3 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

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 elementary school is Brauchle Elementary School, 0.3 miles away in Northside ISD. There are 38 elementary schools within 5 miles and 117 within 10 miles.

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