Southwest High School

Size

Of the 3 high schools in Southwest ISD, Southwest High School is the largest, with 15.9% of the district's students. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 5.9 miles away with a median enrollment of 508; Southwest 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 672 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 519, against an average of 591 per grade. This year grade 12 has 15% fewer students than grade 9 (570 against 672). 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: 87.6% here and 89.3% across Southwest ISD. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

74.4% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 82.5% across Southwest 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 146.12 full-time-equivalent teachers for 2,363 students, Southwest High School has 16.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 2,363 students would have about 168.8 teachers, so Southwest High School has 22.7 fewer.

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

Location

Southwest High School 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 IDEA Brackenridge College Preparatory, 5.1 miles away in IDEA Public Schools. Within 10 miles there are 22 other high schools, 0 of them within 5 miles.

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