Post High School

Public high school in Post, Texas · Post ISD · Grades 9–12

Post High School serves 233 students in grades 9–12 in Post (Garza County). It is one of 3 schools in Post ISD. By enrollment it is the 1269th largest of 1,920 public high schools in Texas (median 457 students). With 10.4 students per full-time teacher, it has fewer students per teacher than the typical Texas high school (14).

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Rank and medians compare all 1,920 Texas high schools with enrollment listed on this site.

233

students

10.4

students per teacher

65.2%

free/reduced lunch eligible

9–12

grades

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Students per teacher = students ÷ 22.44 full-time-equivalent teachers.

School facts

School type	Regular School
Level	High
Grades	9–12
District	Post ISD
County	Garza County
Area type	Rural, remote
School meals	National School Lunch Program, free or reduced price for eligible students
NCES school ID	483549004026

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 directory and school characteristics; area type from NCES EDGE locale codes.

Compared with the district and Texas

	This school	Post ISD	Texas high schools (median)
Students	233	686	457
Students per teacher	10.4	11.1	14
Free or reduced-price lunch eligible	65.2%	71%	63.8%

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. District figures add up its schools. 24% of Texas high schools have fewer students per teacher than this school (share of schools with a lower ratio). State test results aren't published here yet.

Post High School in context

Size

Post High School is the only high school in Post ISD. Its 233 students are 34% of the district's 686. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 32.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 338; Post High School is smaller 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 10 with 69 students, and its smallest is grade 9 with 51, against an average of 58 per grade. This year grade 12 has 12% more students than grade 9 (57 against 51). 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: 64.8% here and 62.7% across Post ISD. White students are next, at 23.6%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

65.2% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 71% across Post ISD and a median of 63.8% for Texas high schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 22.44 full-time-equivalent teachers for 233 students, Post High School has 10.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 233 students would have about 16.6 teachers, so Post High School has 5.8 more.

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

Location

Post High School is in rural territory more than 25 miles from an urbanized area and more than 10 miles from a town, which NCES calls rural, remote. The nearest other high school is Garza County Rjc, 1.2 miles away in Paint Rock ISD. Within 10 miles there is 1 other high school, 1 of them within 5 miles.

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

Students by race and ethnicity

Students by race and ethnicity
Hispanic	64.8%
White	23.6%
Black	5.6%
Two or more races	5.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native	0.4%
Asian	0.4%

43.8% of students are girls and 56.2% are boys.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership.

Students by grade

Students by grade
Grade 9	51
Grade 10	69
Grade 11	56
Grade 12	57