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CRANDALL H S
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 22 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CRANDALL H S
Set in CRANDALL, Texas, CRANDALL H S is a high-enrollment secondary school, run under CRANDALL ISD. It teaches 1,999 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so CRANDALL H S sits 151% larger than that benchmark.
Across the 8 schools in CRANDALL ISD (6,922 students total), CRANDALL H S accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, CRANDALL H S logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 27% Black, 26% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Kaufman County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the resource side, On paper, CRANDALL H S has 128 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 55% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CRANDALL H S tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 45.9%.
In the surrounding community, Kaufman County reports that the typical household earns roughly $89,485 per year, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Kaufman County's 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,319 students), CRANDALL H S is one campus in the mix.
NOLA KATHRYN WILSON EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around CRANDALL H S. On composite proficiency, CRANDALL H S comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 32.5%.
The school occupies a countryside site.
Over the past 7-year window. CRANDALL H S's enrollment has increased 85% since 2018, when it stood at 1,082 (now 1,999). White enrollment moved from 55% to 26% across the same window.
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