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CAPROCK H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 25 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 26 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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 CAPROCK H S
CAPROCK H S is a heavily attended four-year high school in AMARILLO, Texas, run under AMARILLO ISD. The school hosts 2,058 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 159% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.
CAPROCK H S is one of 55 schools operated by AMARILLO ISD, a district that educates 29,321 students overall.
Looking at the student body, CAPROCK H S shows that 71% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 20% White, 5% Black. By comparison, Randall County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, CAPROCK H S shows 140 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.7:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 74% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Randall County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CAPROCK H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.4%, the actual is 50.1%, a residual of +8.8 points.
Across the wider county, Randall County reports that the typical household earns roughly $83,864 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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), CAPROCK H S is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: LAWNDALE EL, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CAPROCK H S. On composite proficiency, CAPROCK H S comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 44.7%.
The school occupies a downtown site.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CAPROCK H S has grew 5%, going from 1,956 students in 2018 to 2,058 in 2025.
On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Randall County at a glance
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