CENTRAL HEIGHTS H S

CENTRAL HEIGHTS H S operates as a low-enrollment senior high in NACOGDOCHES, Texas, one of the schools within CENTRAL HEIGHTS ISD. Current enrollment sits at 333 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so CENTRAL HEIGHTS H S sits 58% below that benchmark.

CENTRAL HEIGHTS ISD runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,096 students. CENTRAL HEIGHTS H S is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, CENTRAL HEIGHTS H S logs that White students make up the majority at 70%; the rest breaks down as 21% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 3% Black, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 62% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting CENTRAL HEIGHTS H S tighter than the state norm the norm. About 23% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Nacogdoches County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CENTRAL HEIGHTS H S ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 63.8%; CENTRAL HEIGHTS H S posts 79.4%, +15.6 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Nacogdoches County indicate median household earnings sit near $53,555, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. Across Nacogdoches County's 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,396 students), CENTRAL HEIGHTS H S is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is CENTRAL HEIGHTS MIDDLE, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CENTRAL HEIGHTS H S ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 45.0%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. CENTRAL HEIGHTS H S's enrollment has contracted 5% since 2018, when it stood at 350 (now 333). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 77% to 70%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 today.

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