Harper DAEP

Size

Of the 47 high schools in Houston ISD, Harper DAEP is the 44th largest, with 0% of the district's students. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 2 miles away and have a median of 552 students, so Harper DAEP 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 36 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 5, against an average of 19 per grade. This year grade 12 has 86% fewer students than grade 9 (5 against 36). 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 55.3% of enrollment, a lower share than across Houston ISD (61.7%). Black students are next, at 43.4%.

90.8% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 79.3% across Houston 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

Harper DAEP has 20.73 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 3.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 76 students would have about 5.4 teachers, so Harper DAEP has 15.3 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 city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other high school is Washington B T High School, 0.8 miles away in the same district. There are 17 high schools within 5 miles and 66 within 10 miles.

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