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CROSBY 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 48 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 39 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 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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 CROSBY H S
CROSBY H S is a big secondary school in CROSBY, Texas, operated by CROSBY ISD. The school enrolls 2,148 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 796 students per school, that is 170% bigger than typical.
Across the 9 schools in CROSBY ISD (7,046 students total), CROSBY H S accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, CROSBY H S logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 31% White, 14% Black, 4% multiracial.
On the resource side, The school reports having 111 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 51% of students at CROSBY H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, CROSBY H S sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.5%; this one delivers 50.4%.
Across the wider county, Harris County reports that median household income runs about $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), CROSBY H S is one campus in the mix.
CROSBY CROSSROADS ACADEMY 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. On composite proficiency, CROSBY H S comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 40.7%.
CROSBY H S operates from a countryside location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 23%: 1,745 students in 2018 compared to 2,148 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 36% to 50% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 19.3:1 today.
On allk12, members of the CROSBY H S community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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