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BROWNSBORO H S
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 38 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 25 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About BROWNSBORO H S
BROWNSBORO H S is an average-sized senior high in BROWNSBORO, Texas, run under BROWNSBORO ISD. The school educates 770 students in grades 9 through 12.
BROWNSBORO ISD runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,560 students. BROWNSBORO H S is one of those campuses.
On demographics, BROWNSBORO H S records that White students make up the majority at 69%; the rest looks like 21% Hispanic, 7% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 78% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.
On the resource side, On paper, BROWNSBORO H S has 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting BROWNSBORO H S tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Henderson County (around 66%), the school's rate is south of typical.
After controlling for student poverty, BROWNSBORO H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.1%, the actual is 56.5%, a residual of +3.4 points.
In the area at large, census data for Henderson County shows median household income runs about $65,179, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Henderson County runs 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,150 students), of which BROWNSBORO H S is one.
The closest other public school is BROWNSBORO J H, roughly 0.2 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BROWNSBORO H S comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 46.1%.
The school occupies a small-town site.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BROWNSBORO H S has held roughly steady, going from 764 students in 2018 to 770 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 14% to 21% over that span.
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