Del Valle Opportunity Center

Size

Of the 2 high schools in Del Valle ISD, Del Valle Opportunity Center is the smallest, with 1.9% of the district's students. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 7.6 miles away with a median enrollment of 437; Del Valle Opportunity 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 11 with 85 students, and its smallest is grade 9 with 26, against an average of 57 per grade. This year grade 12 has 208% more students than grade 9 (80 against 26). 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: 81.1% here and 82.6% across Del Valle ISD. Black students are next, at 12.7%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

93.4% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 89.1% across Del Valle 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 32.34 full-time-equivalent teachers for 228 students, Del Valle Opportunity Center has 7.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 228 students would have about 16.3 teachers, so Del Valle Opportunity Center has 16 more.

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

Location

Del Valle Opportunity Center is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town, which NCES calls rural, fringe. The nearest other high school is Del Valle High School, 0.2 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 20 other high schools, 1 of them within 5 miles.

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