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CLEVELAND 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 CLEVELAND H S
CLEVELAND H S is a 9-12 campus of expansive scale in CLEVELAND, Texas, part of CLEVELAND ISD, hosting 3,627 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so CLEVELAND H S sits 356% bigger than that benchmark.
Within CLEVELAND ISD, which oversees 11 schools and 12,513 students, CLEVELAND H S is one campus in the system.
Looking at the student body, CLEVELAND H S reports that nearly all students (88%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 7% White, 3% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 40%.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 208 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Liberty County's rate of about 80%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, CLEVELAND H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.3%, the actual is 31.3%, a residual of -3.1 points.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Liberty County put the typical household earns roughly $68,703 per year, 12% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Across Liberty County's 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,599 students), CLEVELAND H S is one campus in the mix.
CLEVELAND MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, CLEVELAND H S comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 27.8%.
CLEVELAND H S operates from a small-town location.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CLEVELAND H S has grew 156%, going from 1,417 students in 2018 to 3,627 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 64% to 88% across the same window.
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