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BARBERS HILL INT NORTH
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 85 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 78 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 21 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 14 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% 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%.
About BARBERS HILL INT NORTH
BARBERS HILL INT NORTH operates as a medium-sized middle school in MONT BELVIEU, Texas, overseen by BARBERS HILL ISD. Current enrollment sits at 924 students spanning grades 4 through 6. That puts it 44% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.
BARBERS HILL ISD comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 7,875 students; BARBERS HILL INT NORTH is among them.
Looking at the student body, BARBERS HILL INT NORTH shows that White students make up the majority at 61%. Beyond that, the school reports 26% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 27% of students at BARBERS HILL INT NORTH qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Chambers County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BARBERS HILL INT NORTH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.3%, the actual is 76.0%, a residual of +13.6 points.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Chambers County shows the typical household earns roughly $109,804 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. BARBERS HILL INT NORTH is one of 18 public schools in Chambers County (combined enrollment of about 11,701 students).
Nearest neighbor: ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BARBERS HILL INT NORTH comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 70.9%.
Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.
Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the BARBERS HILL INT NORTH community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Chambers County at a glance
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