BEAUMONT ISD EARLY COLLEGE H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 86 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 46 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 24 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 18 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 43% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 33 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About BEAUMONT ISD EARLY COLLEGE H S
Located at 3410 AUSTIN ST, in BEAUMONT, Texas, BEAUMONT ISD EARLY COLLEGE H S is a small high school that educates 321 students (grades 9 through 12), part of BEAUMONT ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so BEAUMONT ISD EARLY COLLEGE H S sits 60% below that benchmark.
Within BEAUMONT ISD, which oversees 26 schools and 16,336 students, BEAUMONT ISD EARLY COLLEGE H S is one campus in the system.
For racial and ethnic makeup, BEAUMONT ISD EARLY COLLEGE H S shows that 62% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest comes out to 24% Black, 9% White, 2% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 70% of students at BEAUMONT ISD EARLY COLLEGE H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BEAUMONT ISD EARLY COLLEGE H S is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 43.3%; this one delivers 76.0%, a residual of +32.7 points.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) reports that median household income runs about $60,026, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Jefferson County's 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,825 students), BEAUMONT ISD EARLY COLLEGE H S is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is SMITH MIDDLE, roughly 1.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BEAUMONT ISD EARLY COLLEGE H S ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 31.0%.
Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 153%: 127 students in 2018 compared to 321 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 39% to 62%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 11.2:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.
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