Ray High School

Size

Of the 9 high schools in Corpus Christi ISD, Ray High School is the 3rd largest, with 4.8% of the district's students. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 2.3 miles away with a median enrollment of 243; Ray High School is larger 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 9 with 451 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 354, against an average of 395 per grade. This year grade 12 has 22% fewer students than grade 9 (354 against 451). 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: 83.1% here and 82.2% across Corpus Christi ISD. White students are next, at 11.3%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

71% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 72.3% across Corpus Christi 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 97.23 full-time-equivalent teachers for 1,578 students, Ray High School has 16.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 1,578 students would have about 112.7 teachers, so Ray High School has 15.5 fewer.

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

Location

Ray High School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other high school is Richard Milburn Academy Corpus Christi, 0.3 miles away in Richard Milburn Alternative High School (Killeen). Within 10 miles there are 16 other high schools, 12 of them within 5 miles.

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