Rise

Size

Rise is the 5th largest of Alvin ISD's 6 high schools; its 116 students are 0.4% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 7.5 miles away and have a median of 2,126 students, so Rise 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 12 with 34 students, and its smallest is grade 9 with 23, against an average of 29 per grade. This year grade 12 has 48% more students than grade 9 (34 against 23). 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

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 50.9% of enrollment, a higher share than across Alvin ISD (40.3%). White students are next, at 38.8%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

70.7% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 51.1% across Alvin 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

Rise has 20.19 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 5.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 116 students would have about 8.3 teachers, so Rise has 11.9 more.

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

Location

NCES classifies its location as suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other high school is Alvin High School, 0.2 miles away in the same district. There is 1 high school within 5 miles and 9 within 10 miles.

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