San Benito High School

Size

Of the 5 high schools in San Benito CISD, San Benito High School is the largest, with 22.7% of the district's students. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 1.8 miles away with a median enrollment of 84; San Benito 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 10 with 723 students, and its smallest is grade 9 with 2, against an average of 514 per grade. This year grade 12 has 31,950% more students than grade 9 (641 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: 98.9% here and 97.9% across San Benito CISD. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

81.1% 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 137.34 full-time-equivalent teachers for 2,057 students, San Benito High School has 15 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 2,057 students would have about 146.9 teachers, so San Benito High School has 9.6 fewer.

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

Location

San Benito High School is in an urbanized area of 100,000 to 250,000 people, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, midsize. The nearest other high school is Triumph Public High Schools-San Benito, 0.9 miles away in Triumph Public High Schools-Rio Grande Valley. Within 10 miles there are 13 other high schools, 10 of them within 5 miles.

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