Iltexas Lancaster Desoto High School

Size

Iltexas Lancaster Desoto High School is the smallest of International Leadership of Texas (Iltexas)'s 8 high schools; its 191 students are 0.7% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 2.4 miles away and have a median of 221 students, so Iltexas Lancaster Desoto High School is close to their typical size.

As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

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 10 with 57 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 37, against an average of 48 per grade. This year grade 12 has 26% fewer students than grade 9 (37 against 50). 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 59.2% of enrollment, about the same share as across International Leadership of Texas (Iltexas) (59.1%). Black students are next, at 34%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

83.2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 73.7% across International Leadership of Texas (Iltexas) 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

Iltexas Lancaster Desoto High School has 21.55 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 8.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 191 students would have about 13.6 teachers, so Iltexas Lancaster Desoto High School has 8 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 suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other high school is Desoto Alternative Education Center (Daep), 1.4 miles away in Desoto ISD. There are 12 high schools within 5 miles and 34 within 10 miles.

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