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A+ SECONDARY SCHOOL
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 35 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 10 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About A+ SECONDARY SCHOOL
As a moderately sized high school in DALLAS, Texas, A+ SECONDARY SCHOOL instructs 790 students from grades 7 through 12, part of A+ ACADEMY.
A+ ACADEMY comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 1,678 students; A+ SECONDARY SCHOOL is among them.
On demographics, A+ SECONDARY SCHOOL records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (95%). Beyond that, the school reports 3% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.
On the resource side, The school currently runs with 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting A+ SECONDARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Around 98% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Dallas County's rate of about 77%.
With demographic context factored in, A+ SECONDARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.0%; this one delivers 35.9%.
In the surrounding community, Dallas County reports that median household income runs about $76,547, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which A+ SECONDARY SCHOOL is one.
H GRADY SPRUCE H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around A+ SECONDARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts A+ SECONDARY SCHOOL at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 33.6%.
The school occupies an urban site. As a public charter, A+ SECONDARY SCHOOL runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at A+ SECONDARY SCHOOL has edged up 43%, going from 554 students in 2018 to 790 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 in 2025.
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