CANADIAN 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 73 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 32 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 20 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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 CANADIAN H S
CANADIAN H S is a four-year high school of rural-scale scale in CANADIAN, Texas, one of the schools within CANADIAN ISD, caters to 283 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 64% leaner than the state mean of about 796.
CANADIAN H S is one of 4 schools operated by CANADIAN ISD, a district that caters to 758 students overall.
Looking at the student body, CANADIAN H S shows that 52% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 46% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.
On the income-and-resources front, CANADIAN H S logs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.2:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 42% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
After controlling for student poverty, CANADIAN H S sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.7%; this one delivers 66.5%.
In the area at large, Hemphill County reports that the typical household earns roughly $61,563 per year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 2%. Across Hemphill County's 4 public schools (combined enrollment of about 758 students), CANADIAN H S is one campus in the mix.
CANADIAN MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, CANADIAN H S comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 50.7%.
The campus sits in a small-town setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CANADIAN H S has held roughly steady, going from 280 students in 2018 to 283 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 59% to 46% across the same window.
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