BANGS 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 61 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 34 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 56% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About BANGS H S
BANGS H S is a four-year high school of micro-enrollment scale in BANGS, Texas, one of the schools within BANGS ISD, educateing 226 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so BANGS H S sits 72% below that benchmark.
BANGS ISD runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 793 students. BANGS H S is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, BANGS H S records that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment. Other groups include 28% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 75% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.6:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BANGS H S tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 47.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 56.1%.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Brown County shows median household income runs about $57,470, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Brown County's 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,238 students), BANGS H S is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: BANGS MIDDLE, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BANGS H S comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 46.3%.
BANGS H S operates from a small-town location.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 31%: 327 students in 2018 compared to 226 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 70% to 63%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 11.2:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 today.
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