Longview High School

Size

Of the 2 high schools in Longview ISD, Longview High School is the largest, with 27.9% of the district's students. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 3.1 miles away and have a median of 304 students, so Longview High School is larger than most of them.

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 9 with 649 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 490, against an average of 568 per grade. This year grade 12 has 24% fewer students than grade 9 (490 against 649). 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 41.9% of enrollment, about the same share as across Longview ISD (42.9%). Black students are next, at 33.3%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

78.2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 82.4% across Longview 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

Longview High School has 164.33 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 2,272 students would have about 162.3 teachers, so Longview High School has 2 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, small, which means it is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people. The nearest other high school is Dan Chadwick Campus, 2.7 miles away in East Texas Charter Schools. There are 6 high schools within 5 miles and 8 within 10 miles.

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