Moises E Molina High School

Size

Moises E Molina High School is the 5th largest of Dallas ISD's 39 high schools; its 2,006 students are 1.4% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 3.8 miles away and have a median of 581 students, so Moises E Molina 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 577 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 462, against an average of 502 per grade. This year grade 12 has 20% fewer students than grade 9 (462 against 577). 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 94.2% of enrollment, a higher share than across Dallas ISD (71.3%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

93.2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 89.3% across Dallas 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

Moises E Molina High School has 124.94 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 2,006 students would have about 143.3 teachers, so Moises E Molina High School has 18.4 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 Trinidad Garza Early College at Mt View, 0.5 miles away in the same district. There are 9 high schools within 5 miles and 64 within 10 miles.

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