SANTA ROSA H S

Set in SANTA ROSA, Texas, SANTA ROSA H S is a tiny senior high, run under SANTA ROSA ISD. It educates 291 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so SANTA ROSA H S sits 63% below that benchmark.

SANTA ROSA ISD runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 874 students. SANTA ROSA H S is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, SANTA ROSA H S lists that nearly all students (99%) are Hispanic. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 89%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, SANTA ROSA H S has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, SANTA ROSA H S sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.7%; this one delivers 42.4%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Cameron County) reports that median household earnings sit near $52,601, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 21%. SANTA ROSA H S is one of 187 public schools in Cameron County (combined enrollment of about 97,392 students).

The closest other public school is JO NELSON MIDDLE, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around SANTA ROSA H S. On composite proficiency, SANTA ROSA H S comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 43.3%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 11%: 326 students in 2018 compared to 291 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 11.5:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 today.

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