Total enrollment
100,208
-2,943 (-3%) vs SY 2020-21
131 schools in NORTHSIDE ISD
Texas · 100,208 students · 2 cities
Another district in Texas shares this name: NORTHSIDE ISD (Wilbarger County).
In Texas's NORTHSIDE ISD, public K-12 schools total 131 and serve approximately 100,208 students (an average of 765 per school).
4-year change in NORTHSIDE ISD
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25School count
127
+8 (+7%) vs SY 2020-21
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, enrollment-weighted demographic averages
How NORTHSIDE ISD ranks
Among districts| Measure | This district | In Texas | In the US |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.6% | #294 of 667 | N/A |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 100,208 | #4 of 760 | #27 of 9,234 |
| Number of schools ranked most first | 127 | #4 of 760 | N/A |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #421 of 758 | #4,749 of 9,044 |
| Free or reduced-price lunch share ranked highest first | 49.7% | #521 of 750 | #4,223 of 8,164 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.1% | #327 of 557 | #2,958 of 6,853 |
Districts need at least 2 schools and 500 students to be ranked. Test proficiency is ranked within the state only, since each state gives a different test. Each rank links to the full list.
Inside NORTHSIDE ISD
State test results across the district's 117 scored schools run from Health Careers High School at 90.6% proficient to Mead Elementary School at 16.0%, a gap of 74.6 points. That is the 6th widest gap among 352 Texas districts with four or more scored schools.
Since 2017-18, the 116 district schools that reported both years went from 106,103 to 92,650 students (down 13%) and from 6,920 to 6,549 full-time teachers (down 5%), as of 2024-25.
Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across each school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25; schools with fewer than 100 students and schools serving specialized populations are left out. Staffing figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data and count only schools that reported students and teachers in both years.
About NORTHSIDE ISD
NORTHSIDE ISD is a medium-population Texas school district running 131 schools with combined enrollment near 100,208.
For a sense of the school types, NORTHSIDE ISD is made up of 87 elementary, 24 middle, 17 high schools, and 3 combined or other.
Per-school enrollment averages around 765 in this district, noticeably above the Texas typical of 606.
Over the past 4-year window. Across the same 4-year window, public-school enrollment declined 3%: 103,151 students in SY 2020-21 versus 100,208 in SY 2024-25. Over that span, NORTHSIDE ISD opened 8 schools, going from 119 to 127.
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