East Central High School

Size

Of the 4 high schools in East Central ISD, East Central High School is the largest, with 29.2% of the district's students. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 8 miles away and have a median of 345 students, so East Central 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 973 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 712, against an average of 841 per grade. This year grade 12 has 27% fewer students than grade 9 (712 against 973). 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 73.6% of enrollment, about the same share as across East Central ISD (73.3%). White students are next, at 11.8%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

66.7% 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 High School has 181.35 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 18.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 3,362 students would have about 240.1 teachers, so East Central High School has 58.7 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 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 Cast Lead High School, 0.2 miles away in the same district. There is 1 high school within 5 miles and 12 within 10 miles.

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