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ALICE H S
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 18 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 34 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 18 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ALICE H S
Located at # 1 COYOTE TRL, in ALICE, Texas, ALICE H S is a sizable senior high that educates 1,295 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within ALICE ISD. That puts it 63% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.
ALICE ISD runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 4,297 students. ALICE H S is one of those campuses.
Demographically, ALICE H S lists that nearly all students (93%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 5% White. By comparison, Jim Wells County as a whole is about 80% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 71 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 86% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
With demographic context factored in, ALICE H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.2%, the actual is 38.0%, a residual of +1.8 points.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Jim Wells County put the typical household earns roughly $51,896 per year, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 21%. In all, Jim Wells County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,302 students), of which ALICE H S is one.
Nearest neighbor: ADAMS MIDDLE, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around ALICE H S. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ALICE H S ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 42.7%.
ALICE H S operates from a small-town location.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ALICE H S has remained close to its prior level, going from 1,314 students in 2018 to 1,295 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 in 2025.
On allk12, the feed for ALICE H S typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Jim Wells County at a glance
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