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CANYON H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 63 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 51 points since 2020.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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 CANYON H S
As a mid-sized senior high in CANYON, Texas, CANYON H S educates 1,097 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within CANYON ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 38% above the state mean of about 796.
CANYON ISD runs 21 schools in total, collectively educating 11,565 students. CANYON H S is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, CANYON H S shows that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. Other groups include 22% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 77 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 21% of students at CANYON H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Randall County's rate of about 44%.
With demographic context factored in, CANYON H S sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 64.7%; this one delivers 70.5%.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Randall County shows median household income runs about $83,864, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Randall County's 43 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,668 students), CANYON H S is one campus in the mix.
MIDWAY ALTERNATIVE H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CANYON H S at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 59.5%.
CANYON H S operates from a town-based location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 3%: 1,128 students in 2018 compared to 1,097 in 2025.
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Randall County at a glance
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