Donna High School

Size

Of the 2 high schools in Donna ISD, Donna High School is the largest, with 15.4% of the district's students. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 3.5 miles away with a median enrollment of 435; Donna 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 10 with 534 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 468, against an average of 498 per grade. This year grade 12 has 10% fewer students than grade 9 (468 against 518). 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: 99.3% here and 99.6% across Donna ISD. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

88.7% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 92.4% across Donna 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 148.75 full-time-equivalent teachers for 1,992 students, Donna High School has 13.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 1,992 students would have about 142.3 teachers, so Donna High School has 6.4 more.

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

Location

Donna High School is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other high school is IDEA College Prep, 1.8 miles away in IDEA Public Schools. Within 10 miles there are 35 other high schools, 11 of them within 5 miles.

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