North Dallas High School

Size

North Dallas High School is the 15th largest of Dallas ISD's 39 high schools; its 1,300 students are 0.9% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 2.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 554; North Dallas 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 373 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 275, against an average of 325 per grade. This year grade 12 has 26% fewer students than grade 9 (275 against 373). 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: 66.5% here and 71.3% across Dallas ISD. Black students are next, at 27.5%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

91.1% of its students are eligible 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

With 81.11 full-time-equivalent teachers for 1,300 students, North Dallas High School has 16 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 1,300 students would have about 92.9 teachers, so North Dallas High School has 11.8 fewer.

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

Location

North Dallas High School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other high school is Innovation Design Entrepreneurship Academy, 1.1 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 59 other high schools, 21 of them within 5 miles.

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