SOUTH HOUSTON H S

SOUTH HOUSTON H S is a four-year high school of high-enrollment scale in SO HOUSTON, Texas, one of the schools within PASADENA ISD, enrolling 2,185 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so SOUTH HOUSTON H S sits 174% larger than that benchmark.

SOUTH HOUSTON H S is one of 67 schools operated by PASADENA ISD, a district that serves 46,491 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SOUTH HOUSTON H S records that nearly all students (86%) are Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 10% Black, 2% White. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, SOUTH HOUSTON H S shows 143 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.3:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 85% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SOUTH HOUSTON H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.6%, the actual is 42.3%, a residual of +5.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Harris County) logs that median household earnings sit near $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. SOUTH HOUSTON H S is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

The closest other public school is PEARL HALL EL, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SOUTH HOUSTON H S comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 37.0%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SOUTH HOUSTON H S has edged down 25%, going from 2,902 students in 2018 to 2,185 in 2025.

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