Waltrip High School

Size

Of the 47 high schools in Houston ISD, Waltrip High School is the 11th largest, with 0.9% of the district's students. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 2.6 miles away and have a median of 442 students, so Waltrip 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 518 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 340, against an average of 404 per grade. This year grade 12 has 34% fewer students than grade 9 (340 against 518). 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 79.7% of enrollment, a higher share than across Houston ISD (61.7%). Black students are next, at 11.8%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

79.6% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 79.3% across Houston 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

Waltrip High School has 94.87 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 1,615 students would have about 115.4 teachers, so Waltrip High School has 20.5 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 city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other high school is Harper DAEP, 1.5 miles away in the same district. There are 14 high schools within 5 miles and 71 within 10 miles.

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