The Summit (High School)

Size

The Summit (High School) is the 6th largest of Pasadena ISD's 7 high schools; its 161 students are 0.3% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 3.3 miles away and have a median of 2,201 students, so The Summit (High School) 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 9 with 67 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 18, against an average of 40 per grade. This year grade 12 has 73% fewer students than grade 9 (18 against 67). 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 74.5% of enrollment, a lower share than across Pasadena ISD (82.8%). Black students are next, at 16.8%. Students from 4 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

77% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 81.9% across Pasadena 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 Summit (High School) has 15.91 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 10.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 161 students would have about 11.5 teachers, so The Summit (High School) has 4.4 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, midsize, which means it is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people. The nearest other high school is Sam Rayburn High School, 1.6 miles away in the same district. There are 8 high schools within 5 miles and 32 within 10 miles.

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