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The 2020 best San Antonio public high schools lists on this page identify the traditional open enrollment, selective enrollment and charter high schools that currently rank highest in both the learning success of all of their students and preparing their college-bound students for the next step in their educational experience.

Most Texas high schools offer a four-year curriculum at a single campus, but some school districts have chosen to operate separate campuses for ninth grade students or for ninth and tenth grade students. In this analysis, the performance metrics for Texas high schools that are a part of these multiple campus arrangements are combined and the schools are evaluated in the same manner as the four-year, single-campus high schools. Other independent school districts and some charter districts operate schools that teach more than four grades. The STAAR assessment student performance metric used in this best Texas high schools ranking is for all grade levels taught at those schools.

Clicking on these 2020 top San Antonio open enrollment high schools, 2020 top San Antonio selective enrollment high schools and 2020 top San Antonio charter high schools jump links displays those rankings. The high schools identified in these lists also are among the top ranked high schools in the state of Texas.

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Each of the San Antonio high schools included in this ranking analysis was evaluated using three metrics: students' performance on the 2019 State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) evaluations administered by the Texas Education Commission, participation in and successful completion of Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) courses, and percentage of students taking the SAT and ACT college admission tests and their performance on those tests. Texas Education Agency (TEA) accountability ratings were not considered in this analysis since these ratings also take into account factors that generally have no meaningful linkage to the learning success of individual students, such as student demographics and changes in student performance on the STAAR evaluations from one year to the next.

Unlike some other best San Antonio high school rankings, this analysis examined only the most credible and most current student performance data available and no consideration was given to student demographics, changes in student performance over time on the STAAR tests, and other such factors or to subjective factors such as anonymous self-selected reviews and statistically invalid online opinion surveys.

Additional information about how the performance of these high schools was evaluated and ranked in this analysis, how overall academic performance was graded, and the 2020 rankings for all 106 high schools included in this study are available by clicking on this complete San Antonio public high schools rankings link.

Open enrollment high schools

Open enrollment high schools are single campus and multiple campus traditional public high schools operated by independent school districts at which the only requirement for admittance is residency in the district and school attendance area.

2020 San Antonio top open enrollment high schools

							% students met criteria
rank	campus(es)	district	students	academic performance index	accountability rating	STAAR scaled score	AP / IB	SAT	ACT	attended by students living in
1	Reagan High School	North East ISD	3,480	64.6	A	94	50.7%	72.8%	21.3%	San Antonio
2	Johnson High School	North East ISD	3,149	62.2	A	94	44.2%	64.8%	22.2%	San Antonio
3	Champion High School	Boerne ISD	1,738	61.2	A	93	45.6%	61.4%	38.4%	Boerne, Fair Oaks Ranch, San Antonio
4	Smithson Valley High School	Comal ISD	2,849	54.1	A	93	28.7%	63.7%	16.0%	Bulverde, Canyon Lake, New Braunfels, San Antonio, Spring Branch
5	Brandeis High School	Northside ISD	2,773	53.2	A	92	37.3%	62.9%	10.7%	Helotes, San Antonio

Selective enrollment high schools

In addition to their traditional open enrollment schools, a number of Texas school districts also operate selective enrollment schools. Selective enrollment schools provide career-oriented or specialized curriculum in addition to academic subjects, and admittance typically is based on students' previous academic performance and interests demonstrated in student interviews, auditions, essays, and other similar faculty assessments. As would be expected, since admission to selective enrollment schools generally is highly selective and limited, the average standardized test results of the selective enrollment schools generally are much higher than results attained by the open enrollment schools that their students otherwise would attend.

2020 San Antonio top selective enrollment high schools

							% students met criteria
rank	campus(es)	district	students	academic performance index	accountability rating	STAAR scaled score	AP / IB	SAT	ACT
1	Health Careers High School	Northside ISD	862	85.1	A	98	78.9%	94.8%	39.5%
2	International School of America	North East ISD	494	66.5	A	94	56.3%	71.5%	37.1%
3	Judson Early College Academy	Judson ISD	481	60.2	A	95	6.0%	90.0%	10.0%

Charter high schools

Generally speaking, any student can apply for admission to a Texas charter school, though the charter district's charter can specify certain restrictions. A typical example of this would be that a student must reside in a specific town or city in order to apply for admission. In most cases, the school's admissions policy also will describe its lottery process. A charter school must use a lottery process when the number of applications to the school exceeds the number of available spaces.

2020 San Antonio top charter high schools

							% students met criteria
rank	campus(es)	district	students	academic performance index	accountability rating	STAAR scaled score	AP / IB	SAT	ACT
1	BASIS San Antonio Shavano Campus	BASIS Texas	1,058	84.8	A	96	100.0%	100.0%	42.4%
2	Young Women's Leadership Academy	San Antonio ISD	495	76.9	A	96	71.4%	91.7%	31.0%
3	Travis Early College High School	San Antonio ISD	381	63.4	A	95	36.5%	78.7%	12.5%

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