WEST OSO H S

WEST OSO H S is a four-year high school of close-knit scale in CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, one of the schools within WEST OSO ISD, caters to 491 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so WEST OSO H S sits 38% leaner than that benchmark.

WEST OSO H S is one of 5 schools operated by WEST OSO ISD, a district that educates 1,778 students overall.

Demographically, WEST OSO H S logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (88%). Other groups include 10% Black. The wider county runs roughly 63% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Nueces County's rate of about 67%.

With demographic context factored in, WEST OSO 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 32.5%; WEST OSO H S posts 51.1%, +18.6 points above that line.

In the area at large, Nueces County reports that median household income runs about $66,897, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Nueces County's 124 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,619 students), WEST OSO H S is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: WEST OSO J H, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WEST OSO H S comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 41.0%.

WEST OSO H S operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WEST OSO H S has edged down 20%, going from 612 students in 2018 to 491 in 2025.

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