Juvenille Justice Alternative Program

Size

Juvenille Justice Alternative Program is the smallest of United ISD's 8 high schools; its 12 students are 0% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 8.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 265; Juvenille Justice Alternative Program 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 6 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 1, against an average of 4 per grade. This year grade 12 has 20% more students than grade 10 (6 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

All of its students are reported as Hispanic.

75% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 75% across United 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 0.09 full-time-equivalent teachers for 12 students, Juvenille Justice Alternative Program has 133.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 12 students would have about 0.9 teachers, so Juvenille Justice Alternative Program 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

Juvenille Justice Alternative Program is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town, which NCES calls rural, fringe. Youth Village Detention Center (in the same district) is listed at the same location. Within 10 miles there are 13 other high schools, 1 of them within 5 miles.

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