# SAN MARCOS H S

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `483897004452`
- **School name**: SAN MARCOS H S
- **Location**: SAN MARCOS, TX 78666
- **Address**: 2601 RATTLER RD
- **District**: SAN MARCOS CISD (LEAID `4838970`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 29.82247, -97.94992
- **Phone**: (512)393-6805
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7414810 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Marcos_High_School_(Texas)
- **Founded**: 1918

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,371
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 159
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 73.3%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: C
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: C
  - school_progress: B
  - academic_growth: C
  - relative_performance: B
  - closing_gaps: C
  - overall: C
  - overall_score: 77
  - support_label: Targeted Support

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 47.7% proficient — 421 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 9.5% proficient, 1.7% advanced — 421 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 65.9% proficient — 4,018 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 34.9% proficient, 8.8% advanced — 4,018 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 77.3% proficient — 832 tested
- **Biology (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 35.3% proficient, 10.2% advanced — 832 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **English I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 52.9% proficient — 1,001 tested
- **English I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 30.5% proficient, 4.1% advanced — 1,001 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 63.2% proficient — 862 tested
- **English II (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 37.5% proficient, 3.6% advanced — 862 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 53.3% proficient — 705 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 16.3% proficient, 1.6% advanced — 705 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 57.7% proficient — 1,863 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 33.7% proficient, 3.9% advanced — 1,863 tested
- **Relative Performance (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **School Progress**: 70.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2021**: 43.8% (cohort of 146)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 492

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 20.3% (483 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.6% (16 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.3% (33 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 23.2% (578 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 20
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 73.2%
- **Black/African American**: 1.1%
- **Asian**: 5.5%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 18.6%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.3%
- **Two or more races**: 1.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 74.5%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.2% — 355 students
- **English Learners**: 7.7% — 191 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 162 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 40 students
- **Autism**: 32 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 25 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 22 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 3 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 2 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 2 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,612
- **Federal share**: $926
- **State + local share**: $9,686
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,307
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $15,308,775
- **Federal share**: 19.3%
- **State share**: 9.2%
- **Local share**: 71.5%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $6,876,882

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $67,451
- **Poverty rate**: 15.2%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 30.7%
- **Unemployment**: 11.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,527
- **Foreign-born residents**: 3.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 13.3%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 29.7 miles (ELDORADO CHEMICAL CO INC)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 6
- **Nearest brownfield**: 6.62 miles (SAN MARCOS MUNICIPAL AIRPORT)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF SAN MARCOS
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 7
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-10-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **BOWIE EL** — 0.5 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.64%)
- **HAYS INSPIRE ACADEMY** — 0.7 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.64%)
- **DEZAVALA EL** — 2.5 mi away, 0.34% (this school: 0.64%)
- **GOODNIGHT MIDDLE** — 2.6 mi away, 0.58% (this school: 0.64%)
- **BONHAM PRE-K SCHOOL** — 2.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.64%)

### graduation rate
- **CANYON H S** — 11.4 mi away, 97% (this school: 79%)
- **COMAL ACADEMY** — 11.8 mi away, 92% (this school: 79%)
- **LEHMAN H S** — 13.4 mi away, 89% (this school: 79%)
- **NEW BRAUNFELS H S** — 13.9 mi away, 95% (this school: 79%)
- **JACK C HAYS H S** — 14.9 mi away, 94% (this school: 79%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/san-marcos-h-s-san-marcos
- **Performance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/san-marcos-h-s-san-marcos/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/san-marcos-h-s-san-marcos/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/san-marcos-h-s-san-marcos/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/san-marcos-h-s-san-marcos/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/san-marcos-h-s-san-marcos/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/san-marcos-h-s-san-marcos/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/san-marcos-h-s-san-marcos/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/san-marcos-h-s-san-marcos/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/san-marcos-h-s-san-marcos/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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