ALVORD H S

ALVORD H S operates as an one-room-style secondary school in ALVORD, Texas, overseen by ALVORD ISD. Current enrollment sits at 225 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so ALVORD H S sits 72% leaner than that benchmark.

ALVORD ISD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 844 students; ALVORD H S is among them.

On the student-mix side, ALVORD H S reports that White students make up the majority at 78%; the rest comes out to 20% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school reports having 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 36% of students at ALVORD H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Wise County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, ALVORD H S tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 58.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 60.4%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Wise County shows the typical household earns roughly $93,421 per year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. ALVORD H S is one of 28 public schools in Wise County (combined enrollment of about 12,854 students).

ALVORD MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ALVORD H S at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 41.6%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ALVORD H S has ticked up 6%, going from 212 students in 2018 to 225 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 15% to 20% across the same window.

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