BAY CITY H S

Located at 400 7TH ST, in BAY CITY, Texas, BAY CITY H S is a middle-of-the-pack four-year high school that teaches 1,042 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within BAY CITY ISD. That puts it 31% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.

BAY CITY ISD runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 3,473 students. BAY CITY H S is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, BAY CITY H S logs that 69% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 15% White, 12% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Matagorda County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.1:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Matagorda County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BAY CITY H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.8%, the actual is 51.1%, a residual of -0.6 points.

In the broader community, census data for Matagorda County shows median household income runs about $58,628, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. BAY CITY H S is one of 18 public schools in Matagorda County (combined enrollment of about 7,199 students).

ROBERTS EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BAY CITY H S comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 50.2%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 6%: 979 students in 2018 compared to 1,042 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 22% to 15% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 today.

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