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BULLARD 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 79 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 41 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 48 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 9 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% 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 BULLARD H S
Located at 1426 S HOUSTON, in BULLARD, Texas, BULLARD H S is a reasonably sized four-year high school that works with 909 students (grades 9 through 12), overseen by BULLARD ISD.
BULLARD ISD runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,921 students. BULLARD H S is one of those campuses.
On demographics, BULLARD H S lists that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 10% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 65%.
On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.3:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 22% of students at BULLARD H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Cherokee County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BULLARD H S tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 64.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 66.6%.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Cherokee County put median household income runs about $61,261, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. BULLARD H S is one of 24 public schools in Cherokee County (combined enrollment of about 10,948 students).
The closest other public school is BULLARD EL, roughly 0.3 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BULLARD H S at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 60.7%.
BULLARD H S operates from a small-town location.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 18%: 773 students in 2018 compared to 909 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 86% to 81% across the same window.
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Cherokee County at a glance
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