BOVINA 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 49 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 23 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 17 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% 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 BOVINA H S
BOVINA H S operates as a rural-scale four-year high school in BOVINA, Texas, part of BOVINA ISD. Current enrollment sits at 128 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 796 students per school, that is 84% leaner than typical.
BOVINA H S is one of 3 schools operated by BOVINA ISD, a district that educates 422 students overall.
On demographics, BOVINA H S records that nearly all students (95%) are Hispanic; the rest consists of 5% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.
In terms of school funding signals, BOVINA H S shows 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 7.0:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 84% of students at BOVINA H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Parmer County (around 73%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BOVINA H S tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 37.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.0%.
In the broader community, Parmer County reports that the typical household earns roughly $69,735 per year, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. BOVINA H S is one of 11 public schools in Parmer County (combined enrollment of about 2,164 students).
BOVINA MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BOVINA H S comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 48.6%.
The campus sits in a small-town setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. BOVINA H S's enrollment has fell 4% since 2018, when it stood at 134 (now 128).
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