CITYLAB H S
Test scores
STAAR 2024-25 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 28 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 53 and 43. Reading scores are up about 16 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% 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 CITYLAB H S
CITYLAB H S operates as a tiny senior high in DALLAS, Texas, run under DALLAS ISD. Current enrollment sits at 150 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 81% smaller than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.
DALLAS ISD runs 240 schools in total, collectively educating 140,630 students. CITYLAB H S is one of those campuses.
Demographically, CITYLAB H S shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 70%. Beyond that, the school shows 17% Black, 11% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, CITYLAB H S lists 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 81% of students at CITYLAB H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CITYLAB H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.0%, the actual is 49.1%, a residual of +10.1 points.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Dallas County indicate median household earnings sit near $76,547, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. CITYLAB H S is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).
HOSPITAL/HOMEBOUND is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CITYLAB H S at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 54.7%.
The campus sits in a downtown setting.
Five-year trend. CITYLAB H S's enrollment has expanded 88% since 2018, when it stood at 80 (now 150). The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 65% to 70% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 today.
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