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ATLANTA 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 60 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 30 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 43 points since 2022.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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 ATLANTA H S
ATLANTA H S is a high school of low-enrollment scale in ATLANTA, Texas, part of ATLANTA ISD, caters to 511 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 36% below the state mean of about 796.
ATLANTA ISD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,929 students; ATLANTA H S is among them.
On the student-mix side, ATLANTA H S reports that the largest single group is White at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 32% Black, 11% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 76% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting ATLANTA H S tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 59% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ATLANTA H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.2%, the actual is 48.8%, a residual of +0.5 points.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Cass County put median household earnings sit near $53,813, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Cass County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,268 students), of which ATLANTA H S is one.
The closest other public school is ATLANTA PRI, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ATLANTA H S at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 50.9%.
The campus sits in a town-based setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. ATLANTA H S's enrollment has climbed 6% since 2018, when it stood at 480 (now 511). The White share of enrollment edged down from 56% to 50% over that span.
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