Alternative High School

Size

Alternative High School is the 10th largest of North East ISD's 11 high schools; its 106 students are 0.2% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 2.5 miles away with a median enrollment of 967; 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 56 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 8, against an average of 27 per grade. This year grade 12 has 86% fewer students than grade 9 (8 against 56). 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: 62.3% here and 63.5% across North East ISD. Black students are next, at 20.8%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

77.4% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 50.6% across North East 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 85.87 full-time-equivalent teachers for 106 students, Alternative High School has 1.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 106 students would have about 7.6 teachers, so Alternative High School has 78.3 more.

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

Location

Alternative High School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other high school is International School of America, 1.4 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 72 other high schools, 18 of them within 5 miles.

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