Pasadena High School

Size

Of the 7 high schools in Pasadena ISD, Pasadena High School is the 4th largest, with 4.8% of the district's students. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 3.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 1,836; Pasadena High School is close to their typical size.

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 10 with 603 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 490, against an average of 554 per grade. This year grade 12 has 17% fewer students than grade 9 (490 against 588). 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: 95.1% here and 82.8% across Pasadena ISD. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

89.6% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 81.9% across Pasadena 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 141.92 full-time-equivalent teachers for 2,217 students, Pasadena High School has 15.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 2,217 students would have about 158.4 teachers, so Pasadena High School has 16.5 fewer.

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

Location

Pasadena High School is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people, which NCES calls city, midsize. The nearest other high school is Richard Milburn Academy Pasadena, 1.4 miles away in Richard Milburn Alternative High School (Killeen). Within 10 miles there are 54 other high schools, 13 of them within 5 miles.

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