Memorial High School

Size

Memorial High School is the 2nd largest of Edgewood ISD's 6 high schools; its 846 students are 10.8% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 1.9 miles away with a median enrollment of 387; Memorial 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 293 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 152, against an average of 212 per grade. This year grade 12 has 48% fewer students than grade 9 (152 against 293). 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: 93.9% here and 96.4% across Edgewood ISD. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

94.1% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 93.7% across Edgewood 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 57.62 full-time-equivalent teachers for 846 students, Memorial High School has 14.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 846 students would have about 60.4 teachers, so Memorial 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

Memorial 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 Monterrey Park College Preparatory, 1.4 miles away in IDEA Public Schools. Within 10 miles there are 83 other high schools, 31 of them within 5 miles.

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