CHIRENO H S

Set in CHIRENO, Texas, CHIRENO H S is an one-room-style 9-12 campus, part of CHIRENO ISD. It instructs 120 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 85% leaner than the state mean of about 796.

Within CHIRENO ISD, which oversees 2 schools and 365 students, CHIRENO H S is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, CHIRENO H S logs that White students make up the majority at 68%. Beyond that, the school logs 20% Hispanic, 6% Black, 5% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 63% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CHIRENO H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.6%, the actual is 53.3%, a residual of +6.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, Nacogdoches County reports that median household income runs about $53,555, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. In all, Nacogdoches County runs 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,396 students), of which CHIRENO H S is one.

CHIRENO EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, CHIRENO H S comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 46.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CHIRENO H S has rose 17%, going from 103 students in 2018 to 120 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 77% to 68% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 8.4:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 today.

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