Rowlett High School

Size

Rowlett High School is the 4th largest of Garland ISD's 8 high schools; its 2,156 students are 4.2% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 4.9 miles away and have a median of 2,204 students, so Rowlett High School is close to their typical size.

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 593 students, and its smallest is grade 9 with 496, against an average of 539 per grade. This year grade 12 has 20% more students than grade 9 (593 against 496). 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 39.8% of enrollment, a lower share than across Garland ISD (53.4%). Black students are next, at 26.9%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

56.6% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 72.1% across Garland 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

Rowlett High School has 140.72 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 2,156 students would have about 154 teachers, so Rowlett High School has 13.3 fewer.

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 Harmony School of Innovation - Garland, 3.4 miles away in Harmony Public Schools - North Texas. There are 4 high schools within 5 miles and 25 within 10 miles.

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