SUNSET H S

As a large four-year high school in DALLAS, Texas, SUNSET H S hosts 2,164 students from grades 9 through 12, part of DALLAS ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so SUNSET H S sits 172% larger than that benchmark.

SUNSET H S is one of 240 schools operated by DALLAS ISD, a district that enrolls 140,630 students overall.

In terms of who attends, SUNSET H S lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (97%). The wider county runs roughly 41% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, SUNSET H S has 134 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting SUNSET H S higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 93% of students at SUNSET H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Dallas County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SUNSET H S ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 33.1%; SUNSET H S posts 48.0%, +14.9 points above that line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Dallas County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. SUNSET H S is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).

The closest other public school is LOUISE WOLFF KAHN EL, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SUNSET H S. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SUNSET H S ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 42.2%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 9%: 1,983 students in 2018 compared to 2,164 in 2025.

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