Garza Independence High School

Size

Of the 22 high schools in Austin ISD, Garza Independence High School is the 15th largest, with 0.3% of the district's students. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 2.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 520; Garza Independence High School 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 12 with 97 students, and its smallest is grade 10 with 8, against an average of 66 per grade. This year grade 12 has 1,113% more students than grade 10 (97 against 8). 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: 42.2% here and 54.4% across Austin ISD. White students are next, at 39.2%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

47.7% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 51.1% across Austin 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 23.48 full-time-equivalent teachers for 199 students, Garza Independence High School has 8.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 199 students would have about 14.2 teachers, so Garza Independence High School has 9.3 more.

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

Location

Garza Independence High School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other high school is Texans Can Academy - Austin, 0.8 miles away in Texans Can Academies. Within 10 miles there are 44 other high schools, 27 of them within 5 miles.

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