City Population vs School population....

**trojandad** · 10-26-2009, 12:05 AM

try this again....

does anyone have reported high school sizes same size or larger than the city population on your city limits sign?

**Pendragon13** · 10-26-2009, 12:07 AM

Huh? Can you word that again...
Wylie isn't really a town but a school district attached to the Southwest outskirts of Abilene.

**carter08** · 10-26-2009, 12:36 AM

are you asking if there are more people at a high school than in the actual city limits?

Uhhh, that seems highly improbable.

**Keith7** · 10-26-2009, 12:52 AM

Originally posted by carter08
are you asking if there are more people at a high school than in the actual city limits?

Uhhh, that seems highly improbable.

Not so fast my friend.. It happens in Montgomery.. Where the town has 489 people but Montgomery high school has 1669 students, go figure..

**carter08** · 10-26-2009, 12:56 AM

Originally posted by Keith7
Not so fast my friend.. It happens in Montgomery.. Where the town has 489 people but Montgomery high school has 1669 students, go figure..

well, that doesn't make a lick of sense.

**95mustang** · 10-26-2009, 12:57 AM

There are alot of factors that figure into this scenario.

1) How many high schools are in the county?
2) Is your high school only for the students in the city limits?
3) What is the population of the county?
4) How large is the ISD (square miles) vs the community it is based in?

I'm sure there are alot more, but its late and I need my beauty rest.

**trojandad** · 10-26-2009, 01:07 AM

our population was always higher in the high school than on our city limits sign until the last census, the town population of 691 is just barely higher than the reported school numbers of of 538....

we cover SO much unoccupied national and state forest area, we have to travel TONS to accumulate this many students.......we took a map of our district once and laid one edge of it on Liberty, one of our 3a opponents, the rest of our district stretched across liberty, dayton (a 4a school), barbers hill (a 4a school) before the other edge landed on baytown lee (a 5a school).....some of our kids have to travel 45 min home each afternoon to parts of our school district with a huntsville zip code......

not only is it really hard for some kids and, in some case, the poorer kids can't afford to participate for that reason, but so much of our area is not taxable land due to the national and state forests and the remainder of privately held land is valued as timber or agriculture excemptions, meaning a state regulated $50/ac, meaning they only pay about $0.75/ac in taxes each yr....makes for a real substantial tax base.....

tax base and commercially, coldspring is more economically kin to west texas 3a teams.....

**trojandad** · 10-26-2009, 01:10 AM

i had no idea the proration for montgomery was so outrageous....i bet the next census has you guys at a couple of thousand people, that community has just taken off.....love that high school there.....

**Keith7** · 10-26-2009, 01:14 AM

I'll tell you how Montgomery does it.. The town of Montgomery is roughly about 6 square miles but Montgomery ISD's district covers nearly 200 square miles including a lot of subdivisions that have gone up around Lake Conroe.. The fact that there are no reasonably sized towns in close proximity to Montgomery allows them to keep a strangle hold on that part of the county and have a huge district when compared to the size of the town.

Now on the other end of the spectrum, you have a school like Gainesville who's town has nearly 20,000 people, one high school, yet they are 3A.. The reason for this is two things.. there are towns surrounding the outskirts of Gainesville so you have a lot of 1A and 2A schools that are sort of suburbs of Gainesville.. and two, a large portion of Gainesville's population is older.. Something like 60% was over 60 not that long ago so obviously those people aren't going to high school

dawg4life · 10-26-2009, 01:42 AM

bandera has 700 people and 820 kids. Everyone in a 20 mile radius goes there

***sinton66*** · 10-26-2009, 07:03 AM

Originally posted by carter08
are you asking if there are more people at a high school than in the actual city limits?

Uhhh, that seems highly improbable.

Consider Magnolia. City limit sign shows 1111 population yet they have TWO 4A highschools. (Lots of people living out in that surrounding forest.)

**44INAROW** · 10-26-2009, 08:23 AM

How about La Vernia?

**Ranger Mom** · 10-26-2009, 08:53 AM

Originally posted by Pendragon13
Huh? Can you word that again...
Wylie isn't really a town but a school district attached to the Southwest outskirts of Abilene.

That is how Greenwood is too! We are our own School district and not affiliated with the Midland ISD...but our address is Midland.

block&tackle · 10-26-2009, 08:59 AM

Originally posted by Keith7

Now on the other end of the spectrum, you have a school like Gainesville who's town has nearly 20,000 people, one high school, yet they are 3A.. The reason for this is two things.. there are towns surrounding the outskirts of Gainesville so you have a lot of 1A and 2A schools that are sort of suburbs of Gainesville.. and two, a large portion of Gainesville's population is older.. Something like 60% was over 60 not that long ago so obviously those people aren't going to high school

You left out the 3rd reason...Gainesville's Unacceptable academic rating gives its students a free shot to leave for any of the surrounding schools. The last I heard Valley View alone had 50-100 students with Gainesville addresses.

**turbostud** · 10-26-2009, 09:05 AM

Los Fresnos has a town population of 4500 yet is 5a school.

Thread: City Population vs School population....

Thread Tools

Display

City Population vs School population....

Posting Permissions