Phoenix School at Southwest Schools

Size

Phoenix School at Southwest Schools is the smallest of Southwest Public Schools' 2 high schools; its 107 students are 5.7% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 2.3 miles away and have a median of 870 students, so Phoenix School at Southwest Schools 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. As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

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 27 students, and its smallest is grade 5 with 2, against an average of 15 per grade. This year grade 12 has 1,000% more students than grade 5 (22 against 2). 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

White students are the largest group, at 41.1% of enrollment, a higher share than across Southwest Public Schools (3%). Hispanic students are next, at 30.8%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

78.5% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 94.1% across Southwest Public Schools 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

NCES reports no teacher count for Phoenix School at Southwest Schools for 2024-25, so this page shows no students-per-teacher figure for it. Across Southwest Public Schools there are 103 students per teacher.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25.

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 KIPP Houston High School, 0.3 miles away in KIPP Texas Public Schools. There are 23 high schools within 5 miles and 55 within 10 miles.

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