Great Hearts Online - Tx, San Antonio TX

Original Research by School Decision on Great Hearts Online - Tx

Great Hearts Online-Texas is a charter school delivering its classical-education curriculum in a full-time online format to families across Texas. The school opened in January 2021 and has grown to serve students from kindergarten through ninth grade. It is part of the Great Hearts Texas network, which operates multiple brick-and-mortar campuses across the Dallas-Fort Worth area and has been building out K-12 programming across its locations.

The student body numbers in the low hundreds and is diverse. White and Hispanic students make up the larger shares of enrollment, with Asian and Black students also present. Specific enrollment numbers and demographic breakdowns are displayed in the data sections. Free-or-reduced-price lunch and special-education identification data were not available for this school.

On state standardized assessments (STAAR), Great Hearts Online-Texas shows an uneven profile across grade levels and subjects. In English language arts, the school performs better, with students in grades four through six showing proficiency rates above the midpoint in their grade bands, and grade five reaching a notably stronger level. Reading skills appear to be a relative strength. Mathematics tells a different story. Proficiency drops sharply in the lower and middle grades (third and sixth grade both show low proficiency), improves in grades four and five, then drops again significantly in eighth grade. Science proficiency is moderate, with about one in three fifth-graders meeting the standard and about two in five eighth-graders doing so. Social studies proficiency in eighth grade is low. Grade seven is an outlier in math, showing substantially higher achievement than grades six and eight.

Across all tested subjects and grade levels combined, the school's overall proficiency sits above the midpoint when compared to other districts in Bexar County, though there is meaningful variability by grade and subject.

An online school carries operational implications a parent should understand. Families choosing this model are opting for remote instruction, which requires student independence, reliable home internet, and often a parental role in pacing and accountability. The school serves a statewide enrollment, so families are not joining a local school community with scheduled in-person events, extracurricular activities, or the peer environment of a physical campus. Classical education, the curriculum model Great Hearts employs, emphasizes classical literature, logic and rhetoric, Socratic dialogue, and a structured core of academics; this is a distinct pedagogical choice that appeals to families seeking that particular framework.

The mathematics performance pattern—with pockets of strength in grades four and five but notable weakness in grades three, six, and especially eight—is worth examining closely with the school if math is a priority. A parent may want to ask what changes in curriculum, instruction, or support occur between fifth and sixth grade, and what accounts for the eighth-grade decline. The sharp drop from elementary to middle grades in math is not uncommon in online settings, where students face greater independence demands and the curriculum grows abstract, but it is nonetheless a soft spot in this school's data.

English language arts is a clearer area of stability and relative strength, particularly in the middle grades. Science is adequate but not strong. The school serves grades K through 9 only; no high school data is available, because ninth grade is the terminal grade offered at this writing.

The housing market in San Antonio, the city where the school is administratively located, features a median home value roughly in line with the Texas state average, with recent price movement slightly downward year-over-year. Rental prices have also declined modestly. San Antonio itself is growing rapidly, adding residents faster than most U.S. cities, with new construction concentrated in suburban neighborhoods and newer developments. For families enrolling in an online school, geography is less of a driver, but the broader San Antonio market context is one of relatively stable and accessible housing compared to many U.S. metros.

Great Hearts Texas as a network has been expanding its footprint significantly. Three brick-and-mortar campuses in Arlington, Fort Worth, and Irving have been adding grade levels and building permanent facilities, signaling stability and intent to serve Texas families long-term. The online school is positioned as a complement to these physical locations, extending access to the Great Hearts classical model to families who live outside commuting distance or prefer full-time remote learning.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 326%

School 26% · district not reported

▼ 14 pts below state median · ▼ 8 pts below county median

Grade 434%

School 34% · district not reported

▼ 7 pts below state median · ▲ 1 pts above county median

Grade 535%

School 35% · District 49% · ▼ 14 pts below district

▼ 6 pts below state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Grade 626%

School 26% · District 45% · ▼ 19 pts below district

▼ 8 pts below state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

Grade 749%

School 49% · District 53% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▲ 22 pts above state median · ▲ 35 pts above county median

Grade 817%

School 17% · District 13% · ▲ 4 pts above district

▼ 25 pts below state median · ▼ 8 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 356%

School 56% · District 57% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▲ 10 pts above state median · ▲ 18 pts above county median

Grade 465%

School 65% · District 55% · ▲ 10 pts above district

▲ 16 pts above state median · ▲ 23 pts above county median

Grade 569%

School 69% · District 64% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▲ 15 pts above state median · ▲ 20 pts above county median

Grade 668%

School 68% · District 68%

▲ 16 pts above state median · ▲ 24 pts above county median

Grade 756%

School 56% · District 65% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 13 pts above county median

Grade 859%

School 59% · District 74% · ▼ 15 pts below district

▲ 4 pts above state median · ▲ 12 pts above county median

Science

Grade 529%

School 29% · District 27% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▲ 6 pts above state median · ▲ 12 pts above county median

Grade 840%

School 40% · District 49% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▼ 2 pts below state median · ▲ 5 pts above county median

Social studies

Grade 825%

School 25% · District 38% · ▼ 13 pts below district

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▲ 7 pts above county median

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Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.