BLAND 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 59 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 59 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 21 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 45 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 47% 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 21 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About BLAND H S
Located at 6164 F M 2194, in FARMERSVILLE, Texas, BLAND H S is a minimally staffed senior high that hosts 220 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within BLAND ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so BLAND H S sits 72% smaller than that benchmark.
Across the 3 schools in BLAND ISD (777 students total), BLAND H S accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, BLAND H S logs that 49% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest reads as 47% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BLAND H S sits in the top 10% of Texas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 47.3%; actual is 68.5%, +21.2 points clear of the demographic baseline.
Across the wider county, census data for Hunt County shows median household earnings sit near $71,938, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Hunt County runs 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,771 students), of which BLAND H S is one.
The closest other public school is BLAND EL, roughly 1.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BLAND H S comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 55.2%.
The school occupies a small-town site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BLAND H S has rose 7%, going from 206 students in 2018 to 220 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 51% to 47%.
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Related schools
- BLAND ELElementary · 392 students
- BLAND MIDDLEMiddle · 165 students
- FARMERSVILLE H SHigh · 765 students
- FARMERSVILLE INTElementary · 680 students
- TATUM ELElementary · 591 students
- FARMERSVILLE J HMiddle · 361 students
- KI CHARTER - FARMERSVILLEElementary · 14 students
- COLLIN CO J J A E PElementary
- BLAND EL1.6 mi · 392
- BLAND MIDDLE1.6 mi · 165
- KI CHARTER - FARMERSVILLE4.4 mi · 14
- FARMERSVILLE INT4.5 mi · 680
- TATUM EL4.8 mi · 591
- FARMERSVILLE J H5.1 mi · 361