NORTHSIDE H S

NORTHSIDE H S is one of the middle-of-the-pack 9-12 campuss in HOUSTON, Texas, operated by HOUSTON ISD, with 1,058 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 796 students per school, that is 33% larger than typical.

NORTHSIDE H S is one of 273 schools operated by HOUSTON ISD, a district that instructs 176,727 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, NORTHSIDE H S reports that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 16% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the income-and-resources front, NORTHSIDE H S logs 73 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.4:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, NORTHSIDE H S sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.2%; this one delivers 36.1%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Harris County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which NORTHSIDE H S is one.

MARSHALL MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around NORTHSIDE H S. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), NORTHSIDE H S ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 39.5%.

NORTHSIDE H S operates from an inner-city location.

Looking at the recent track record. NORTHSIDE H S's enrollment has shrank 32% since 2018, when it stood at 1,550 (now 1,058). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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