Texas High School Enrollment Intelligence

⭐ Texas coverage

2,725 Texas high schools, instantly comparable

Every public Texas high school with an NCES ID is in the database — covering 1,102 school districts from Frisco to Houston, Austin to El Paso. The data layers below are populated from federal sources (CRDC, F-33, NCES) and load automatically.

2,018

TX HS with chronic absenteeism data

2,091

TX HS with counselor capacity data

2,282

TX HS with per-pupil revenue + revenue-at-risk projections

2,725

TX HS with enrollment trends + 5-year projections

Look up any Texas high school

Type a TX high school name. Each profile shows enrollment trend, 5-year projection, chronic absenteeism, counselor capacity, and the dollar revenue at risk if the trend holds.

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⭐ The Texas Lens

The Top 10% Rule — why class rank matters more in Texas than anywhere else

Texas is the only major state where a student's class rank at their high school can automatically grant admission to flagship public universities. For families choosing a TX high school, and for school leaders managing reputation and enrollment, this single rule shapes everything.

The Texas Top 10% Law (Texas Education Code §51.803) requires every state-funded 4-year university to automatically admit any Texas resident who graduates in the top percentage of their public-HS class — currently top 6% at UT Austin, top 10% (most others), or higher caps at less-selective campuses. The rule applies regardless of which Texas HS the student attended.

What this means strategically

The HS you attend matters less for UT/A&M than in any other state. A student in the top 6% at a "weaker" TX HS gets the same UT Austin admission as a top-6% student at a flagship public.
Class rank often outweighs raw GPA. A 4.0 student ranked 11th in a class of 100 at an elite HS misses the UT Austin auto-admit; a 3.7 student ranked 5th at a smaller HS gets it. Position relative to your peers can matter more than the number on the transcript.
This creates within-school competition. Families and counselors talk about "Top 10% positioning" the way they talk about UC GPA in California — it's the headline metric.
It's a powerful enrollment-marketing lever. A high school's positioning around "we send 30%+ of seniors to UT Austin's auto-admit pool" is a real differentiator.

Texas Reach — now live

The Texas Reach metric — the share of each HS's senior class enrolling in TX higher ed (any college / 4-yr public / UT Austin + A&M flagship) — is now live, anchored on TEA TAPR figures for the most recent published cohort. Initial dataset covers 98 high-profile Texas HSs; full per-school ingest follows the Texas Public Information Act response. See the leaderboards below, or open any covered school's profile.

🤘 Texas Reach & School Quality leaderboards

The full Texas HS picture — destinations, readiness, accountability.

Top 20 Texas high schools across four metrics: college-going rate, flagship feeder rate (UT Austin + Texas A&M), CCMR (College/Career/Military Ready), and TEA's A-F accountability score. Dataset covers 98 schools — full per-school bulk ingest pending the THECB data response.

Top 20 · Any-college rate

#	School	Any college	UT/A&M
1	School for the Talented and Gifted (Dallas)	99%	38%
2	DeBakey HS for Health Professions	99%	28%
3	Kinder HSPVA (Houston)	99%	22%
4	Carnegie Vanguard HS	99%	30%
5	Liberal Arts and Science Academy (LASA)	98%	32%
6	Health Careers HS (San Antonio)	98%	22%
7	Booker T Washington HSPVA (Dallas)	97%	18%
8	Westlake HS (Austin)	95%	24%
9	Highland Park HS (Dallas)	94%	22%
10	Carroll Senior HS (Southlake)	92%	20%
11	Lake Travis HS	92%	20%
12	Plano West Senior HS	92%	18%
13	Westwood HS (Austin)	92%	20%
14	Westchester Academy for International Studies	92%	17%
15	Seven Lakes HS (Katy)	91%	18%
16	Tompkins HS (Katy)	91%	19%
17	Vandegrift HS (Austin)	91%	19%
18	Plano Senior HS	91%	20%
19	Memorial HS (Houston, SBISD)	91%	18%
20	Liberty HS (Frisco)	90%	16%

⭐ Top 20 · Flagship rate (UT + A&M)

#	School	UT/A&M	Any college
1	School for the Talented and Gifted (Dallas)	38%	99%
2	Liberal Arts and Science Academy (LASA)	32%	98%
3	Carnegie Vanguard HS	30%	99%
4	DeBakey HS for Health Professions	28%	99%
5	Westlake HS (Austin)	24%	95%
6	Highland Park HS (Dallas)	22%	94%
7	Kinder HSPVA (Houston)	22%	99%
8	Health Careers HS (San Antonio)	22%	98%
9	Carroll Senior HS (Southlake)	20%	92%
10	Lake Travis HS	20%	92%
11	Plano Senior HS	20%	91%
12	Westwood HS (Austin)	20%	92%
13	Tompkins HS (Katy)	19%	91%
14	Vandegrift HS (Austin)	19%	91%
15	Anderson HS (Austin)	18%	88%
16	Booker T Washington HSPVA (Dallas)	18%	97%
17	Cinco Ranch HS (Katy)	18%	90%
18	Seven Lakes HS (Katy)	18%	91%
19	Hebron HS (Carrollton)	18%	90%
20	Plano West Senior HS	18%	92%

📈 Top 20 · CCMR (College/Career/Military Ready)

#	School	CCMR	A-F
1	Liberal Arts and Science Academy (LASA)	99%	A
2	School for the Talented and Gifted (Dallas)	99%	A
3	DeBakey HS for Health Professions	99%	A
4	Carnegie Vanguard HS	99%	A
5	Kinder HSPVA (Houston)	97%	A
6	Health Careers HS (San Antonio)	97%	A
7	Booker T Washington HSPVA (Dallas)	95%	A
8	Westlake HS (Austin)	94%	A
9	Highland Park HS (Dallas)	92%	A
10	Carroll Senior HS (Southlake)	91%	A
11	Westwood HS (Austin)	91%	A
12	Westchester Academy for International Studies	90%	A
13	Tompkins HS (Katy)	89%	A
14	Plano West Senior HS	89%	A
15	Seven Lakes HS (Katy)	88%	A
16	Lake Travis HS	88%	A
17	Vandegrift HS (Austin)	88%	A
18	Plano Senior HS	88%	A
19	Memorial HS (Houston, SBISD)	88%	A
20	Liberty HS (Frisco)	87%	A

🎓 Top 20 · TEA A-F Accountability Score

#	School	Score	Grade
1	School for the Talented and Gifted (Dallas)	99	A
2	Liberal Arts and Science Academy (LASA)	98	A
3	DeBakey HS for Health Professions	98	A
4	Carnegie Vanguard HS	98	A
5	Kinder HSPVA (Houston)	97	A
6	Health Careers HS (San Antonio)	96	A
7	Booker T Washington HSPVA (Dallas)	95	A
8	Westlake HS (Austin)	95	A
9	Westwood HS (Austin)	94	A
10	Carroll Senior HS (Southlake)	93	A
11	Westchester Academy for International Studies	93	A
12	Highland Park HS (Dallas)	92	A
13	Seven Lakes HS (Katy)	92	A
14	Tompkins HS (Katy)	92	A
15	Lake Travis HS	92	A
16	Vandegrift HS (Austin)	92	A
17	Hebron HS (Carrollton)	92	A
18	Memorial HS (Houston, SBISD)	92	A
19	Anderson HS (Austin)	91	A
20	Liberty HS (Frisco)	91	A

Source: TEA TAPR Class of 2022. Schools ranked by most-recent cohort year. Click any school name to open its full profile.

What you'll find on every Texas HS profile

Enrollment trend + 5-year projection

Federal NCES CCD data, available for every public + most charter TX HS. Where the school is heading, with confidence intervals.

Revenue at risk

If the trend holds, the dollar revenue gain or loss over 5 years. Based on NCES F-33 district per-pupil revenue ÷ projected enrollment delta.

Chronic absenteeism

% of students absent 15+ days. Federal CRDC source. The strongest early indicator of enrollment loss and dropout risk.

Counselor capacity

Student-counselor ratio vs ASCA's 250:1 target and the US median (~430:1). The capacity story behind Top 10% positioning.

Nearest competing schools

The closest public + charter + private HS, with their own enrollment trajectories. The actual competitive set for the families you're trying to attract.

🤘 Texas Reach

% of the senior class enrolling in TX higher ed the following fall — split by any college, 4-yr public, and UT Austin + A&M flagship. TEA TAPR sourced; expanding to every TX HS as the THECB data lands.