BANDERA H S

Set in BANDERA, Texas, BANDERA H S is a tight-knit secondary school, overseen by BANDERA ISD. It serves 664 students across grades 9 through 12.

BANDERA ISD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,218 students; BANDERA H S is among them.

On the student-mix side, BANDERA H S shows that White students make up the majority at 60%. Other groups include 35% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 41% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Bandera County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BANDERA H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.8%, the actual is 51.4%, a residual of -4.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Bandera County) records that the typical household earns roughly $75,813 per year, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. BANDERA H S is one of 5 public schools in Bandera County (combined enrollment of about 2,461 students).

BANDERA MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BANDERA H S ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 39.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BANDERA H S has held roughly steady, going from 656 students in 2018 to 664 in 2025.

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