DEER PARK H S
DEER PARK · TX · DEER PARK ISD · Public
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THE SUMMIT (HIGH SCHOOL) → First Baptist Christian Academy → SAM RAYBURN H S → Faith Christian Academy → Pueblos Royal Christian School → PASADENA MEMORIAL H S → TEGELER COMMUNITY SCHOOL → RICHARD MILBURN ACADEMY PASADENA →📋 At a glance
- 📚 25 AP courses offered — Elite
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- ✅ Gifted & talented program
- 🔢 6 calculus classes · 68 physics · 28 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: Top 3.7% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: 86th percentile by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How DEER PARK H S compares for families
Among the nation's most academically rigorous high schools.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor sits in the top 3.7% of US high schools with 25 AP courses.
- ▸ LocallyTX students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+4 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: THE SUMMIT (HIGH SCHOOL), First Baptist Christian Academy, SAM RAYBURN H S and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Elite — exceptional AP + advanced course breadth
Top 3.7% of US high schools
✅ Gifted/talented program
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-2186th percentile by test-taker volume
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
Mixed-income school
Below Title I eligibility threshold (FRPL < 35%)
25-34% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Below the federal Title I threshold but a meaningful share of the population is income-eligible for free lunch.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Counselor capacity
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of +0.5%/year, projecting from 2024's 4,057 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue upside
At $15,322 per student in district revenue, the 112 students projected to be gained by 2029 represent ≈ $1,716,064/year in additional funding.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| THE SUMMIT (HIGH SCHOOL) PASADENA |
Public | 1.7 | 161 | +5.9% |
| First Baptist Christian Academy Pasadena |
Private | 2.7 | 482 | -5.5% |
| SAM RAYBURN H S PASADENA |
Public | 3.3 | 2,627 | -0.4% |
| Faith Christian Academy Pasadena |
Private | 4.0 | 124 | +51.2% |
| Pueblos Royal Christian School Pasadena |
Private | 4.3 | 50 | -13.8% |
| PASADENA MEMORIAL H S PASADENA |
Public | 4.3 | 3,177 | +6.6% |
| TEGELER COMMUNITY SCHOOL PASADENA |
Public | 4.6 | 150 | -38.5% |
| RICHARD MILBURN ACADEMY PASADENA PASADENA |
Public · charter | 4.7 | 123 | +6.0% |