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COMMUNITY 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 COMMUNITY H S
As a heavily attended secondary school in NEVADA, Texas, COMMUNITY H S serves 1,328 students from grades 9 through 12, overseen by COMMUNITY ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so COMMUNITY H S sits 67% bigger than that benchmark.
COMMUNITY ISD comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 5,271 students; COMMUNITY H S is among them.
Looking at the student body, COMMUNITY H S lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 33% White, 19% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Collin County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, The school employs 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.2:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 53% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Collin County (around 30%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, COMMUNITY H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.9%, the actual is 49.9%, a residual of -1.0 points.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Collin County) records that the typical household earns roughly $121,600 per year, roughly 56% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. COMMUNITY H S is one of 338 public schools in Collin County (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students).
MCCLENDON EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), COMMUNITY H S ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 42.3%.
COMMUNITY H S operates from a small-town location.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 114%: 622 students in 2018 compared to 1,328 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 56% to 33% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 20.2:1 today.
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