WEST MESQUITE H S

WEST MESQUITE H S is one of the expansive high schools in MESQUITE, Texas, run under MESQUITE ISD, with 1,997 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 796 students per school, that is 151% larger than typical.

MESQUITE ISD comprises 51 schools with combined enrollment of 37,930 students; WEST MESQUITE H S is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WEST MESQUITE H S lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 74%; the rest looks like 18% Black, 6% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 145 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. 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, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, WEST MESQUITE H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.8%, the actual is 49.3%, a residual of +12.4 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Dallas County indicate median household income runs about $76,547, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), WEST MESQUITE H S is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: LANNY FRASIER MIDDLE, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WEST MESQUITE H S at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 34.8%.

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

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WEST MESQUITE H S has contracted 4%, going from 2,077 students in 2018 to 1,997 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 66% to 74%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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