Macarthur High School

Size

Macarthur High School is the 7th largest of North East ISD's 11 high schools; its 2,033 students are 3.6% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 2.9 miles away and have a median of 114 students, so Macarthur High School is larger than most of them.

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 628 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 434, against an average of 508 per grade. This year grade 12 has 27% fewer students than grade 9 (461 against 628). 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 68% of enrollment, a higher share than across North East ISD (63.5%). White students are next, at 18.4%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

56.8% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 50.6% across North East 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

Macarthur High School has 127.73 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 2,033 students would have about 145.2 teachers, so Macarthur High School has 17.5 fewer.

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, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other high school is Academy of Creative Education, 1.4 miles away in the same district. There are 13 high schools within 5 miles and 63 within 10 miles.

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