Hester Juvenile Detent

Size

Hester Juvenile Detent is the 3rd largest of San Benito CISD's 5 high schools; its 40 students are 0.4% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 1.1 miles away and have a median of 499 students, so Hester Juvenile Detent 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 13 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 3, against an average of 8 per grade. This year grade 11 has 40% fewer students than grade 7 (3 against 5). 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 95% of enrollment, about the same share as across San Benito CISD (97.9%).

67.5% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 84.8% across San Benito 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

Hester Juvenile Detent has 3.44 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 11.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 40 students would have about 2.9 teachers, so Hester Juvenile Detent has about as many as that.

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, small, which means it is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people. Amador R Rodriguez Juvenile Boot Camp (in the same district) is listed at the same location. There are 10 high schools within 5 miles and 12 within 10 miles.

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