Hidalgo County Boot Camp

Size

Of the 6 high schools in Weslaco ISD, Hidalgo County Boot Camp is the smallest, with 0.1% of the district's students. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 1.2 miles away with a median enrollment of 420; Hidalgo County Boot Camp 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 9 students, and its smallest is grade 10 with 2, against an average of 6 per grade. This year grade 10 has 78% fewer students than grade 9 (2 against 9). 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 White students: 81.8% here and 1.5% across Weslaco ISD. Hispanic students are next, at 18.2%.

100% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 81.2% across Weslaco 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 2.35 full-time-equivalent teachers for 11 students, Hidalgo County Boot Camp has 4.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 11 students would have about 0.8 teachers, so Hidalgo County Boot Camp has 1.6 more.

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

Location

Hidalgo County Boot Camp is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other high school is IDEA Weslaco Pike College Preparatory, 0.7 miles away in IDEA Public Schools. Within 10 miles there are 28 other high schools, 14 of them within 5 miles.

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