VROONLAND - VANGUARD H S

VROONLAND - VANGUARD H S is a sprawling secondary school in MESQUITE, Texas, overseen by MESQUITE ISD. The school works with 1,605 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 102% above the state mean of about 796.

Across the 51 schools in MESQUITE ISD (37,930 students total), VROONLAND - VANGUARD H S accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, VROONLAND - VANGUARD H S reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 73% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 14% Black, 10% White. The wider county runs roughly 41% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, VROONLAND - VANGUARD H S logs 98 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting VROONLAND - VANGUARD H S higher than the state norm the norm. About 74% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, VROONLAND - VANGUARD 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 41.6%; VROONLAND - VANGUARD H S posts 70.8%, +29.1 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, Dallas County reports 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%. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which VROONLAND - VANGUARD H S is one.

Nearest neighbor: GENTRY EL, around 0.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, VROONLAND - VANGUARD H S comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 35.5%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

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