BALL H S

Located at 4115 AVE O, in GALVESTON, Texas, BALL H S is a roomy four-year high school that educates 1,905 students (grades 9 through 12), run under GALVESTON ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so BALL H S sits 139% bigger than that benchmark.

GALVESTON ISD runs 14 schools in total, collectively educating 7,662 students. BALL H S is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, BALL H S reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 26% White, 22% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Galveston County as a whole is about 26% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, BALL H S lists 118 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 69% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Galveston County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BALL H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.7%, the actual is 34.9%, a residual of -8.8 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Galveston County) records that the typical household earns roughly $86,105 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Galveston County's 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,767 students), BALL H S is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: MORGAN EL MAGNET SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BALL H S. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BALL H S at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 40.5%.

BALL H S operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 7%: 2,050 students in 2018 compared to 1,905 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for BALL H S typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.