M R Wood Center for Learning

Size

M R Wood Center for Learning is the 13th largest of Fort Bend ISD's 14 high schools; its 134 students are 0.2% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 3.3 miles away and have a median of 1,381 students, so M R Wood Center for Learning 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 10 with 37 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 3, against an average of 19 per grade. This year grade 12 has 267% more students than grade 6 (11 against 3). 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

Black students are the largest group, at 49.3% of enrollment, a higher share than across Fort Bend ISD (27.9%). Hispanic students are next, at 23.9%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

66.4% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 47.5% across Fort Bend 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

M R Wood Center for Learning has 28.25 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 4.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 134 students would have about 9.6 teachers, so M R Wood Center for Learning has 18.7 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, midsize, which means it is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people. The nearest other high school is Kempner High School, 1.3 miles away in the same district. There are 9 high schools within 5 miles and 38 within 10 miles.

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