POINT ALTERNATIVE CENTER

POINT ALTERNATIVE CENTER, a very small high school in HIGHLANDS, Texas, part of GOOSE CREEK CISD, serves 96 students, covering grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so POINT ALTERNATIVE CENTER sits 88% below that benchmark.

GOOSE CREEK CISD comprises 34 schools with combined enrollment of 24,032 students; POINT ALTERNATIVE CENTER is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, POINT ALTERNATIVE CENTER logs that 56% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school reports 25% Black, 16% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, POINT ALTERNATIVE CENTER has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting POINT ALTERNATIVE CENTER tighter than the state norm the norm. About 72% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Harris County) shows that median household earnings sit near $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. POINT ALTERNATIVE CENTER is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

Nearest neighbor: HIGHLANDS EL, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around POINT ALTERNATIVE CENTER.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 159%: 37 students in 2018 compared to 96 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 30% to 25%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 3.4:1 in 2018 to 8.0:1 today.

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