Wylie East High School

Size

Wylie East High School is the 2nd largest of Wylie ISD's 3 high schools; its 2,709 students are 14% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 6.7 miles away and have a median of 1,169 students, so Wylie East 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 758 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 614, against an average of 677 per grade. This year grade 12 has 18% fewer students than grade 9 (625 against 758). 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

White students are the largest group, at 42.6% of enrollment, a higher share than across Wylie ISD (39.2%). Hispanic students are next, at 24.8%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

28% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 27.5% across Wylie ISD and a median of 63.8% for Texas high schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Wylie East High School has 158.21 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 2,709 students would have about 193.5 teachers, so Wylie East High School has 35.3 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 suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other high school is Achieve Academy, 2.4 miles away in the same district. There are 2 high schools within 5 miles and 13 within 10 miles.

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