Fort Bend County Alternative

Size

Fort Bend County Alternative is the smallest of Lamar CISD's 8 high schools; its 12 students are 0% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 3.6 miles away with a median enrollment of 1,840; Fort Bend County Alternative 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 9 with 6 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 1, against an average of 4 per grade. This year grade 11 has 83% fewer students than grade 9 (1 against 6). 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: 58.3% here and 38.9% across Lamar CISD. White students are next, at 25%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

83.3% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 43% across Lamar CISD 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 4 full-time-equivalent teachers for 12 students, Fort Bend County Alternative has 3 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 12 students would have about 0.9 teachers, so Fort Bend County Alternative has 3.1 more.

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

Location

Fort Bend County Alternative is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. Fort Bend County Alternative (in Fort Bend ISD) is listed at the same location. Within 10 miles there are 12 other high schools, 6 of them within 5 miles.

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