ALBANY JR-SR H S
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Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 50 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 59% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ALBANY JR-SR H S
ALBANY JR-SR H S is one of the micro-enrollment high schools in ALBANY, Texas, operated by ALBANY ISD, with 216 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 796 students per school, that is 73% leaner than typical.
ALBANY ISD comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 474 students; ALBANY JR-SR H S is among them.
Demographically, ALBANY JR-SR H S records that 80% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 16% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Shackelford County's rate of about 48%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ALBANY JR-SR H S is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 59.5%; ALBANY JR-SR H S posts 43.8%, -15.7 points below that line.
In the area at large, Shackelford County reports that the typical household earns roughly $73,047 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Shackelford County runs 3 public schools (combined enrollment of about 589 students), of which ALBANY JR-SR H S is one.
NANCY SMITH EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ALBANY JR-SR H S at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 42.3%.
ALBANY JR-SR H S operates from a countryside location.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 4%: 224 students in 2018 compared to 216 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 75% to 80% across the same window.
Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Shackelford County at a glance
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