DAINGERFIELD H S

DAINGERFIELD H S is a small 9-12 campus in DAINGERFIELD, Texas, operated by DAINGERFIELD-LONE STAR ISD. The school teaches 343 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so DAINGERFIELD H S sits 57% leaner than that benchmark.

DAINGERFIELD H S is one of 4 schools operated by DAINGERFIELD-LONE STAR ISD, a district that enrolls 1,026 students overall.

On demographics, DAINGERFIELD H S logs that 37% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 32% White, 22% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, DAINGERFIELD H S shows 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting DAINGERFIELD H S tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 69% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, DAINGERFIELD H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.3%, the actual is 53.0%, a residual of +8.7 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Morris County put median household income runs about $58,645, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Morris County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,879 students), DAINGERFIELD H S is one campus in the mix.

SOUTH EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around DAINGERFIELD H S. On composite proficiency, DAINGERFIELD H S comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 50.9%.

DAINGERFIELD H S operates from a rural location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 22%: 282 students in 2018 compared to 343 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 41% to 37%.

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