Bush Middle, San Antonio TX - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Bush Middle

Bush Middle is a regular public middle school serving sixth through eighth grade in North East ISD, located on the north side of San Antonio in the 78258 zip code. The school enrolls a student body of roughly equal size across its three grades, with a racial and ethnic composition that leans toward Hispanic and white students, each representing substantial shares of the enrollment. About a quarter of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a proxy for economic need below the school's median.

The academic picture is uneven by grade and subject. In English Language Arts, Bush performs well, with solid proficiency in grades six and seven, and notably strong results in grade eight. Mathematics is the weaker area. Sixth and seventh graders show low proficiency rates, while eighth graders jump dramatically to high proficiency. This sharp uptick in eighth-grade math suggests either a change in student cohort, a shift in instruction at the upper grade level, or a difference in test difficulty. Parents may want to look into this pattern directly with the school to understand whether the gains in eighth-grade math reflect an actual curriculum or instruction change they can expect their younger students to experience, or whether the results reflect something else. Science proficiency in eighth grade is solid. Social studies proficiency is moderate, around the midpoint. On a school-year snapshot where only one year of data was available, the school shows that roughly nine in ten students reached the "approaches grade level" threshold across all subjects, but only about four in ten reached the "masters" level, suggesting that while most students are moving toward standards, deep mastery lags.

When compared to the other districts in Bexar County, Bush's overall proficiency index places it in the top quartile, a genuine strength and a clear indicator that despite the mixed subject-level picture, the school is performing above the typical peer schools in the county.

The school sits in a suburban context with an established housing market. The immediate area has median home values in the high five-hundred-thousands range, with year-over-year movement modestly downward. Rents in the zip code hover around fifteen hundred dollars monthly. Affordability relative to local income suggests that a mortgage payment would be roughly four times the median household income, and renters spend about a fifth of income on housing. The broader San Antonio metro is among the nation's fastest-growing, with major recent apartment construction and significant in-migration, though growth is concentrated more heavily in the southern regions; North East sits on the established suburban north side.

No data on school discipline, attendance, chronic absenteeism, special education enrollment, English learner services, or detailed staffing and course offerings were available, so families interested in those dimensions should contact the school directly or visit its website. District-level strategic priorities or recent operational changes were not located in the available research. The school's website was not accessible in the provided data, which would typically carry program details, staff directory, parent resources, and registration information.

Bush Middle's top-quartile county performance and strong upper-grade and English results represent genuine academic strengths. The mathematics challenge in earlier grades and the question of what drives the eighth-grade improvement warrant direct conversation with administrators and teachers to help parents understand the school's instructional approach and whether their child might need support bridging earlier gaps as they advance.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 635%

School 35% · District 40% · ▼ 5 pts below district

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

Grade 732%

School 32% · District 19% · ▲ 13 pts above district

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

Grade 874%

School 74% · District 50% · ▲ 24 pts above district

▲ 32 pts above state median · ▲ 49 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 671%

School 71% · District 56% · ▲ 15 pts above district

▲ 19 pts above state median · ▲ 27 pts above county median

Grade 775%

School 75% · District 52% · ▲ 23 pts above district

▲ 26 pts above state median · ▲ 32 pts above county median

Grade 883%

School 83% · District 59% · ▲ 24 pts above district

▲ 28 pts above state median · ▲ 36 pts above county median

Science

Grade 877%

School 77% · District 55% · ▲ 22 pts above district

▲ 35 pts above state median · ▲ 42 pts above county median

Social studies

Grade 860%

School 60% · District 33% · ▲ 27 pts above district

▲ 36 pts above state median · ▲ 42 pts above county median

This schoolNORTH EAST ISD, same grade

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.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 6Lower-income49%Higher-income81%32 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income54%Higher-income82%28 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income74%Higher-income86%12 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 6Lower-income15%Higher-income46%31 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income27%Higher-income34%7 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income59%Higher-income78%19 pp gap