MESQUITE H S

MESQUITE H S operates as a large senior high in MESQUITE, Texas, operated by MESQUITE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 2,294 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 796 students per school, that is 188% larger than typical.

MESQUITE ISD runs 51 schools in total, collectively educating 37,930 students. MESQUITE H S is one of those campuses.

Demographically, MESQUITE H S shows that 66% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest comes out to 24% Black, 8% White. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, MESQUITE H S shows 168 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting MESQUITE H S tighter than the state norm the norm. About 85% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, 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 46.0%, a residual of +9.3 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Dallas County indicate median household earnings sit near $76,547, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. MESQUITE H S is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).

The closest other public school is BLACK EL, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MESQUITE H S ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 39.4%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 21%: 2,904 students in 2018 compared to 2,294 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 58% to 66% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.

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