WHEATLEY H S

WHEATLEY H S operates as a compact senior high in HOUSTON, Texas, part of HOUSTON ISD. Current enrollment sits at 537 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 796 students per school, that is 33% below typical.

HOUSTON ISD runs 273 schools in total, collectively educating 176,727 students. WHEATLEY H S is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, WHEATLEY H S logs that the most-represented group is Black (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 45% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, WHEATLEY H S has 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 96% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, WHEATLEY H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.8%, the actual is 34.0%, a residual of +2.2 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Harris County put the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which WHEATLEY H S is one.

The closest other public school is HENDERSON N EL, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WHEATLEY H S ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 36.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 45%: 969 students in 2018 compared to 537 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 in 2025.

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