McCollum High School

Size

Of the 5 high schools in Harlandale ISD, McCollum High School is the 2nd largest, with 13% of the district's students. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 1.9 miles away with a median enrollment of 502; McCollum 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 10 with 445 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 304, against an average of 376 per grade. This year grade 12 has 20% fewer students than grade 9 (304 against 382). 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

The largest group is Hispanic students: 96.4% here and 97.4% across Harlandale ISD. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

84.6% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 86.5% across Harlandale 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 104.5 full-time-equivalent teachers for 1,502 students, McCollum High School has 14.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 1,502 students would have about 107.3 teachers, so McCollum High School has 2.8 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas high schools (14).

Location

McCollum High School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other high school is IDEA South Flores College Preparatory, 1.5 miles away in IDEA Public Schools. Within 10 miles there are 62 other high schools, 22 of them within 5 miles.

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