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O'CONNOR H S

HELOTES · TX · NORTHSIDE ISD · Public

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📚AP rigor: Top 3.7% nationally 📖26 AP courses

📋 At a glance

Programs & features
  • 📚 26 AP courses offered — Elite
  • ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
  • ✅ Gifted & talented program
  • 🔢 10 calculus classes · 17 physics · 48 chemistry
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: Top 3.7% of US high schools
  • 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Top 0.9% by test-taker volume

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

🎓 Where grads go

83.0% of graduates enrolled in any college the fall after graduation.
4-yr public TX college
50.0%
UT-Austin + Texas A&M
12.0%

Source: TEA/THECB college-enrollment figures. Full Texas Reach detail below.

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How O'CONNOR H S compares for families

Among the nation's most academically rigorous high schools.

  • StatewideAP rigor sits in the top 3.7% of US high schools with 26 AP courses.
  • LocallyTX students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+4 points).
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Scenic Hills Christian Academy, ANNE FRANK INSPIRE ACADEMY, SST HILL COUNTRY COLLEGE PREP H S and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor

AP + advanced-course offerings

Elite — exceptional AP + advanced course breadth

Top 3.7% of US high schools

50th 90th ↑ this school
Less rigorMore rigorMost rigor
AP courses offered
26
Math ✓ · Science ✓
Advanced math classes
35
10 calculus · 25 advanced
Lab science classes
65
17 physics · 48 chemistry
Other rigor signals
✅ Dual-enrollment program
✅ Gifted/talented program

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).

SAT / ACT participation

CRDC federal data · 2020-21

Top 0.9% by test-taker volume

50th 90th
SAT/ACT test-takers
1,036
11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test
Test-taking intensity
40.9
takers per 100 students in grades 9-12
Compared against
18,426
US high schools reporting SAT/ACT participation

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.

👩‍🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC

Teacher experience & reliability

% inexperienced teachers (1st-2nd yr)
29.9%
Elevated — a quarter or more of teachers are in years 1-2. Often correlates with school instability.
% chronic teacher absence (≥10 days/yr)
25.5%
Elevated. Teacher absence directly affects classroom continuity and student outcomes.

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.

🏛️ Federal Title I context

Lower-need school

Not Title I eligible (FRPL < 25%)

23.4%
FRPL rate — % of students who qualify for the federal Free or Reduced-Price Lunch program. This is the underlying federal income-eligibility signal Title I designations are computed from (ESEA Sec. 1113).
0% (no FRPL) 35% TA · 40% Schoolwide 100% (universal FRPL)

<25% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Well below the Title I threshold; expect a higher-income student body on average.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.

🤘 Texas Reach

Where this school's graduates land after high school.

What share of O'Connor HS (San Antonio)'s 2022 graduating class enrolled in college the following fall — and how that splits across Texas higher education. Source-of-truth for college-going at the high-school level in Texas.

Any college
83%
enrolled in TX higher ed, fall after graduation
State sample median: 85%
4-yr public TX
50%
at a TX public university
State sample median: 53%
⭐ Flagship
12%
at UT Austin or the Texas A&M system
State sample median: 15%
Cohort: 720 graduates
Class of: 2022
State sample: 98 TX HSs with published data

Northside ISD.

Source: TEA TAPR 2022-23, Domain 4 CCMR + Higher Ed Enrollment. Headline rate is "enrolled in Texas higher ed the following fall." Initial dataset covers a curated set of high-profile TX high schools — full per-school ingest pending the THECB open-records data response.

⭐ Texas School Quality

How TEA grades this school: CCMR + A-F accountability.

Two cohort-level signals TEA publishes for every Texas public high school: the share of graduates ready for college, career, or military service (CCMR), and the state's official A-F accountability grade.

CCMR
79%
College, Career, or Military Ready
State sample median: 82%
TEA Grade
B
Class of 2023
Accountability score
85
out of 100
State sample median: 88
What counts as CCMR-ready? →

Under TEA TAPR Domain 4, a graduate counts as CCMR-ready if they meet any one of: a qualifying SAT/ACT score; a qualifying TSI assessment; AP/IB exam scores of 3+; dual-credit college courses with C or better; an associate's degree at HS graduation; an industry-based certification; an OnRamps course; military enlistment; or an aligned career-prep program. The metric rolls up "is this graduate prepared for what comes next?" into one comparable number.

Source: TEA TAPR 2022-23 — Domain 4 CCMR + A-F Accountability. CCMR cohort = HS Class of 2023. A-F grade per Texas Education Code §39.054. Initial dataset is high-profile Texas HSs only — full ingest follows the TEA TAPR downloadable-file processing.

Chronic absenteeism

Share of students absent 15+ days
6.0%
Below 10% — strong attendance culture. Chronic absence is a leading indicator of dropout and disengagement; a low rate signals families staying connected to the school.
Students absent 15+ days
152
Federal definition: absent (excused or unexcused) for at least 15 of ~180 school days — about 10% of the school year.

Why this matters to enrollment: A low chronic-absence rate is the cleanest school-level signal of strong family connection, classroom culture, and student engagement — all upstream drivers of enrollment stability. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →

Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.

Counselor capacity

Student : Counselor
282:1
Above the ASCA 250:1 target but below the US median (~430:1). Capacity is workable.
Counselor FTE
9.0
Full-time-equivalent school counselors on staff.
Teacher FTE
180
Full-time-equivalent classroom teachers.

Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.

Enrollment trend & projection

Grade 12 went from 756 in 2021 to 709 in 2024 — over 3 years.
-6.2%

Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).

If the recent trend holds…

At its recent rate of -5.7%/year, projecting from 2024's 2,535 students:

2025
2,390
2027
2,124
2029
1,887

≈ 648 fewer students by 2029 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.

An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.

Revenue at risk

At $11,862 per student in district revenue, the 648 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $7,686,576/year in funding at risk.

District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.

Nearby high schools — the local competition

The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.

SchoolTypeMilesHS enrollmentTrend
Scenic Hills Christian Academy
San Antonio
Private 1.7 134 +17.5%
ANNE FRANK INSPIRE ACADEMY
SAN ANTONIO
Public · charter 1.9 146 +10.6%
SST HILL COUNTRY COLLEGE PREP H S
SAN ANTONIO
Public · charter 2.2 165 +13.8%
BRANDEIS H S
SAN ANTONIO
Public 2.5 2,657 -7.0%
The Atonement Catholic Academy
San Antonio
Private 3.2 302 -26.9%
SOTOMAYOR H S
SAN ANTONIO
Public 4.2 2,627 +58.3%
TAFT H S
SAN ANTONIO
Public 4.7 2,670 +0.9%
Lutheran High School Of San Antonio
San Antonio
Private 5.1 106 -35.0%

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