San Antonio Steam Academy
SAN ANTONIO · TX · SAN ANTONIO STEAM ACADEMY · Public charter · K-12 combined
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JUDSON LEARNING ACAD → PREMIER HIGH SCHOOL-SAN ANTONIO WINDCREST → RUTH JONES MCCLENDON MIDDLE → JUDSON CARE ACADEMY → ALLISON L STEELE E L C → POSITIVE SOLUTIONS CHARTER → JUVENILE DETENT CTR → YOUNG MEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How San Antonio Steam Academy compares for families
What families should know about San Antonio Steam Academy.
- ▸ LocallyTX students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+4 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: JUDSON LEARNING ACAD, PREMIER HIGH SCHOOL-SAN ANTONIO WINDCREST, RUTH JONES MCCLENDON MIDDLE and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Source: 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.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
Lower-need school
Not Title I eligible (FRPL < 25%)
<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.
🏛️ Your state's public flagship
The University of Texas at Austin
The in-state tuition gap is the flagship's biggest draw — most in-state families pay far less than the out-of-state sticker. Average net price after aid runs about $19,857/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.
Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.
💰 Pay for college in Texas
Texas's public scholarships
Texas families have two big levers: a guaranteed-admission rule for the top of each graduating class, and the need-based TEXAS Grant that pairs with it. Class rank does more here than almost anywhere.
Graduate in the top 10% of your Texas public-HS class and finish the required curriculum for automatic admission to TX public universities (UT Austin caps at the top 5%). (Must finish the required college-prep curriculum (Distinguished plan).)
Official program details ↗Texas's flagship need-based grant — no GPA gate to qualify (a 3.0 or top-third rank just gives priority when funds run short). (Enroll within 16 months of HS, ≥¾ time, in a bachelor's program.)
Official program details ↗Graduate at least a semester early with the Distinguished plan plus a 3.0 GPA and an 80th-percentile test (or top-10% rank) for a TEXAS Grant-sized scholarship. (Graduate at least a semester early with the Distinguished plan.)
Official program details ↗Eligibility rules change yearly — confirm with the official program before relying on it. Amounts are recent published figures; awards cover tuition/fees, not housing or books unless noted. Verified 2026-06-14.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the most reliable early indicator that a student will leave a school — either by transferring out, dropping out, or matriculating to a charter or private alternative. At this level, today's absentees become next year's enrollment loss and the year-after's revenue loss.
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
Counselor capacity
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
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -12.0%/year, projecting from 2024's 139 students:
A small or specialty program — naive trend math doesn't capture the school's full picture. Read the trend as directional, not predictive.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
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The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JUDSON LEARNING ACAD SAN ANTONIO |
Public | 1.6 | 78 | -26.4% |
| PREMIER HIGH SCHOOL-SAN ANTONIO WINDCREST SAN ANTONIO |
Public · charter | 3.5 | 78 | -37.6% |
| RUTH JONES MCCLENDON MIDDLE SAN ANTONIO |
Public · charter | 4.4 | 68 | — |
| JUDSON CARE ACADEMY CONVERSE |
Public | 4.2 | 62 | -11.4% |
| ALLISON L STEELE E L C SCHERTZ |
Public | 7.7 | 87 | -25.6% |
| POSITIVE SOLUTIONS CHARTER SAN ANTONIO |
Public · charter | 8.9 | 93 | +0.0% |
| JUVENILE DETENT CTR SAN ANTONIO |
Public | 9.4 | 93 | +32.9% |
| YOUNG MEN'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY SAN ANTONIO |
Public · charter | 6.3 | 108 | -21.2% |