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BEAUMONT UNITED H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 24 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 16 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 17 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% 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 BEAUMONT UNITED H S
As a well-populated four-year high school in BEAUMONT, Texas, BEAUMONT UNITED H S works with 2,035 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within BEAUMONT ISD. That puts it 156% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.
BEAUMONT ISD runs 26 schools in total, collectively educating 16,336 students. BEAUMONT UNITED H S is one of those campuses.
Demographically, BEAUMONT UNITED H S reports that 66% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 30% Hispanic. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 33% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, On paper, BEAUMONT UNITED H S has 126 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 92% of students at BEAUMONT UNITED H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Jefferson County's rate of about 71%.
With demographic context factored in, BEAUMONT UNITED H S tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 23.9%.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) reports that median household earnings sit near $60,026, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Across Jefferson County's 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,825 students), BEAUMONT UNITED H S is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: BLANCHETTE EL, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BEAUMONT UNITED H S comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 34.0%.
The campus sits in a city-core setting.
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