Public school / High
Challenge Early College H S
Houston, Texas
- NCES ID
- 482364009609
- District
- Houston ISD
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Challenge Early College H S is a public high school in Houston, Texas, run by Houston ISD. It enrols 454 students — the 43293rd largest of 9,692 public schools in Texas.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
454
Teachers
20.0
Students per teacher
22.7
Free or reduced-price lunch
83.7%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Houston ISD
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Texas Connections Academy at Houston8,967 students
- 2Bellaire H S3,170 students
- 3Lamar H S3,125 students
- 4Westside H S2,882 students
- 5Houston Math Science and Technology Center2,779 students
- 6Heights H S2,476 students
- 7Chavez H S2,272 students
- 8Wisdom H S2,260 students
- Enrollment−12.7%
- Teachers−42.9%
- Students per teacher+55.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+18.2%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory