Rgv Youth Recovery Home

Size

Of the 5 high schools in San Benito CISD, Rgv Youth Recovery Home is the smallest, with 0.1% of the district's students. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 5 miles away with a median enrollment of 231; Rgv Youth Recovery Home 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 9 with 3 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 1, against an average of 2 per grade. This year grade 12 has 50% fewer students than grade 8 (1 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

The largest group is Hispanic students: 91.7% here and 97.9% across San Benito CISD.

58.3% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 84.8% across San Benito CISD 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 4.67 full-time-equivalent teachers for 12 students, Rgv Youth Recovery Home has 2.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 12 students would have about 0.9 teachers, so Rgv Youth Recovery Home has 3.8 more.

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

Location

Rgv Youth Recovery Home is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town, which NCES calls rural, fringe. The nearest other high school is Harlingen H S - South, 3.4 miles away in Harlingen CISD. Within 10 miles there are 13 other high schools, 4 of them within 5 miles.

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