Original Research by School Decision on Hac Daep H S
HAC DAEP H S is a Disciplinary Alternative Education Program high school operated by Harlandale ISD, located on March Avenue in San Antonio. Understanding what this school is and who it serves matters before reading anything else about it: DAEP placements in Texas are typically short-term assignments for students who have been removed from their home campus for disciplinary reasons, meaning enrollment here reflects that structure rather than a traditional high school enrollment pattern. The school serves grades nine through twelve, but a parent researching this campus should understand that it functions differently from a conventional campus and that most of the standard metrics used to compare schools do not apply in the same way here.
Enrollment is very small, concentrated heavily in the ninth and tenth grades, with only a handful of students in the upper grades at the time of the data snapshot. A substantial majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The student body is almost entirely Hispanic, reflecting the demographics of the Harlandale ISD community in San Antonio's southside. Data on English learner and special education populations were not available in what was provided.
State assessment data is essentially absent for this campus. One student was tested in a single subject in a single year, and that result was suppressed due to the small count. This is consistent with what a DAEP typically looks like in testing data: very few students are enrolled long enough to be tested, and when they are, the counts are too small to report. No proficiency trends, no multi-year academic data, and no graduation rate data were available. The comparison metrics relative to districts in Bexar County were all marked not applicable for the same reason. A parent should not read these gaps as academic weakness in the way they might for a traditional school; they reflect the enrollment structure and purpose of this type of placement.
No program offerings, course access details, discipline data, or staffing information were provided, so those dimensions of the school's day-to-day operation cannot be characterized here. A parent whose student is assigned here, or who wants to understand what academic support and pathway options exist during a placement, would need to ask Harlandale ISD directly. The district brief was searched but produced no confirmed recent parent-relevant changes before the research was exhausted.
The surrounding context is Harlandale ISD's southside San Antonio service area. Home values near the school's zip code run well below both the Texas state median and the national median, and the area has seen a modest year-over-year decline in home values. San Antonio as a whole is one of the fastest-growing metros in the country, publicly reported as adding more residents than any other U.S. metro in 2024, with major employers spanning healthcare, military, finance, and energy. That broader growth is concentrated in the northern and outer suburban corridors; the southside neighborhoods where Harlandale ISD sits are an older, more established part of the city with a different housing profile than the growth edges.
For a family whose student has been placed here, the practical questions are about duration of placement, what coursework continues during the assignment, how credits transfer back to the home campus, and what re-entry looks like. Those are questions this data cannot answer, but they are the right ones to bring to Harlandale ISD directly.
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