Alternative High School

Size

Alternative High School is the 14th largest of Northside ISD's 16 high schools; its 159 students are 0.2% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 2.2 miles away and have a median of 1,433 students, so Alternative High School 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 9 with 68 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 16, against an average of 40 per grade. This year grade 12 has 76% fewer students than grade 9 (16 against 68). 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

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 69.2% of enrollment, about the same share as across Northside ISD (68.3%). Black students are next, at 11.9%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

49.1% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 49.7% across Northside 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

Alternative High School has 28.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 5.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 159 students would have about 11.4 teachers, so Alternative High School has 16.8 more.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other high school is Stevens High School, 1 miles away in the same district. There are 12 high schools within 5 miles and 45 within 10 miles.

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