Alternative Education Center

Size

Alternative Education Center is the 6th largest of Ector County ISD's 7 high schools; its 85 students are 0.3% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 3.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 416; Alternative Education Center is smaller than most of them.

NCES lists it as an alternative school: one that serves students whose needs a regular school may not meet, or that offers a non-traditional program alongside regular schools.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 8 with 29 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 4, against an average of 12 per grade. This year grade 12 has 50% fewer students than grade 6 (4 against 8). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 77.6% here and 81.4% across Ector County ISD. White students are next, at 14.1%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

90.6% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 75.5% across Ector County ISD and a median of 63.8% for Texas high schools. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 7.67 full-time-equivalent teachers for 85 students, Alternative Education Center has 11.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 85 students would have about 6.1 teachers, so Alternative Education Center has 1.6 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas high schools (14).

Location

Alternative Education Center is in an urbanized area of 100,000 to 250,000 people, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, midsize. Ector County Youth Center (in the same district) is listed at the same location. Within 10 miles there are 8 other high schools, 8 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.