Options Early Graduation High School

Size

Options Early Graduation High School is the smallest of Texarkana ISD's 3 high schools; its 61 students are 0.8% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 3.1 miles away with a median enrollment of 414; Options Early Graduation High School 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 11 with 24 students, and its smallest is grade 9 with 3, against an average of 15 per grade. This year grade 12 has 400% more students than grade 9 (15 against 3). 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 White students: 42.6% here and 27.5% across Texarkana ISD. Black students are next, at 41%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

85.2% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 75% across Texarkana 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 8.25 full-time-equivalent teachers for 61 students, Options Early Graduation High School has 7.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 61 students would have about 4.4 teachers, so Options Early Graduation High School has 3.9 more.

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

Location

Options Early Graduation High School is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people, which NCES calls city, small. The nearest other high school is Premier H S of Texarkana, 0.9 miles away in Premier High Schools. Within 10 miles there are 5 other high schools, 5 of them within 5 miles.

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