DICKINSON H S

DICKINSON H S is a senior high of sizable scale in DICKINSON, Texas, run under DICKINSON ISD, serveing 3,810 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 379% bigger than the state mean of about 796.

DICKINSON ISD runs 19 schools in total, collectively educating 12,554 students. DICKINSON H S is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, DICKINSON H S logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 24% White, 18% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 26% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 235 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting DICKINSON H S higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 59% of students at DICKINSON H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), DICKINSON H S sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.1%; this one delivers 54.8%.

Across the wider county, Galveston County reports that median household earnings sit near $86,105, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. DICKINSON H S is one of 95 public schools in Galveston County (combined enrollment of about 62,767 students).

JOHN AND SHAMARION BARBER MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, DICKINSON H S comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 42.3%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. DICKINSON H S's enrollment has expanded 30% since 2018, when it stood at 2,926 (now 3,810). The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 48% to 53% over that span.

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