MONTEREY H S

As an expansive senior high in LUBBOCK, Texas, MONTEREY H S caters to 2,117 students from grades 9 through 12, part of LUBBOCK ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so MONTEREY H S sits 166% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 49 schools in LUBBOCK ISD (24,237 students total), MONTEREY H S accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, MONTEREY H S reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 64% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 21% White, 12% Black. By comparison, Lubbock County as a whole is about 36% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 137 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.5:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 67% of students at MONTEREY H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Lubbock County (around 57%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MONTEREY H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.8%, the actual is 53.4%, a residual of +8.6 points.

Across the wider county, Lubbock County reports that median household earnings sit near $64,155, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. MONTEREY H S is one of 110 public schools in Lubbock County (combined enrollment of about 52,301 students).

The closest other public school is WHEELOCK EL, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MONTEREY H S. On composite proficiency, MONTEREY H S comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 42.4%.

MONTEREY H S operates from an urban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MONTEREY H S has held roughly steady, going from 2,120 students in 2018 to 2,117 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 59% to 64% over that span.

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