Opport Awareness Center

Size

Opport Awareness Center is the smallest of Katy ISD's 11 high schools; its 170 students are 0.2% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 3.9 miles away and have a median of 3,270 students, so Opport Awareness Center is smaller than most of them.

NCES lists it as an alternative school: one that serves students whose needs a regular school may not meet, or that offers a non-traditional program alongside regular schools.

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 49 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 4, against an average of 24 per grade. This year grade 12 has 575% more students than grade 6 (27 against 4). 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 42.9% of enrollment, a higher share than across Katy ISD (36.4%). Black students are next, at 33.5%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

71.8% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 42.7% across Katy 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

Opport Awareness Center has 48.28 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 3.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 170 students would have about 12.1 teachers, so Opport Awareness Center has 36.2 more.

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 suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other high school is Aristoi Classical Upper School, 1.5 miles away in Aristoi Classical Academy. There are 7 high schools within 5 miles and 24 within 10 miles.

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