The Mary Catherine Harris School-School of Choice

Size

The Mary Catherine Harris School-School of Choice is the 4th largest of Bryan ISD's 6 high schools; its 195 students are 1.2% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 2.9 miles away and have a median of 160 students, so The Mary Catherine Harris School-School of Choice is close to their typical size.

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 11 with 62 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 1, against an average of 33 per grade. This year grade 12 has 5,600% more students than grade 7 (57 against 1). 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 67.7% of enrollment, a higher share than across Bryan ISD (61.4%). Black students are next, at 22.6%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

86.7% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 77.5% across Bryan 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

The Mary Catherine Harris School-School of Choice has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 10.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 195 students would have about 13.9 teachers, so The Mary Catherine Harris School-School of Choice has 5.1 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 city, small, which means it is inside a principal city of fewer than 100,000 people. Disciplinary Alternative Educational Progam (Daep) (in the same district) is listed at the same location. There are 7 high schools within 5 miles and 10 within 10 miles.

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