Burleson High School

Size

Of the 5 high schools in Burleson ISD, Burleson High School is the 2nd largest, with 14% of the district's students. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 3.3 miles away and have a median of 395 students, so Burleson High School is larger than most of them.

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 482 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 382, against an average of 448 per grade. This year grade 12 has 21% fewer students than grade 9 (382 against 482). 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

White students are the largest group, at 55.3% of enrollment, about the same share as across Burleson ISD (53.5%). Hispanic students are next, at 27.2%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

35.3% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 39.7% across Burleson ISD and a median of 63.8% for Texas high schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

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

Teachers

Burleson High School has 117.77 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 1,791 students would have about 127.9 teachers, so Burleson High School has 10.1 fewer.

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 suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other high school is Game Development Design School at Burleson ISD, 1 miles away in the same district. There are 5 high schools within 5 miles and 17 within 10 miles.

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