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CANYON H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-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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