East Central Cast Lead High School

Size

Of the 4 high schools in East Central ISD, East Central Cast Lead High School is the 2nd largest, with 1.9% of the district's students. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 8.2 miles away and have a median of 502 students, so East Central Cast Lead High School is smaller than most of them.

As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

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 60 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 34, against an average of 43 per grade. This year grade 12 has 12% more students than grade 8 (38 against 34). 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 63.7% of enrollment, a lower share than across East Central ISD (73.3%). White students are next, at 20.5%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

75.8% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 70.1% across East Central 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

East Central Cast Lead High School has 20.38 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 10.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 215 students would have about 15.4 teachers, so East Central Cast Lead High School has 5 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 rural, fringe, which means it is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town. The nearest other high school is East Central High School, 0.2 miles away in the same district. There is 1 high school within 5 miles and 11 within 10 miles.

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