ALPINE H S

ALPINE H S is one of the one-room-style high schools in ALPINE, Texas, run under ALPINE ISD, with 286 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 64% leaner than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.

Within ALPINE ISD, which oversees 3 schools and 905 students, ALPINE H S is one campus in the system.

Demographically, ALPINE H S reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 65% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 33% White. The wider county runs roughly 42% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, ALPINE H S lists 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 45% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Brewster County's rate of about 55%.

With demographic context factored in, ALPINE H S ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 54.2%; ALPINE H S posts 68.8%, +14.6 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Brewster County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $56,212 per year, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Brewster County runs 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,093 students), of which ALPINE H S is one.

ALPINE EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ALPINE H S comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 39.4%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 9%: 314 students in 2018 compared to 286 in 2025.

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