GEORGE WEST H S

GEORGE WEST H S is one of the one-room-style 9-12 campuss in GEORGE WEST, Texas, overseen by GEORGE WEST ISD, with 274 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 66% below the state mean of about 796.

Within GEORGE WEST ISD, which oversees 4 schools and 1,063 students, GEORGE WEST H S is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, GEORGE WEST H S logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 60%; the rest looks like 38% White. By comparison, Live Oak County as a whole is about 42% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, GEORGE WEST H S has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.6:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 58% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GEORGE WEST H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 59.9%, a residual of +11.3 points.

In the broader community, census data for Live Oak County shows median household income runs about $57,150, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. GEORGE WEST H S is one of 6 public schools in Live Oak County (combined enrollment of about 1,629 students).

GEORGE WEST EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GEORGE WEST H S ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 48.6%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GEORGE WEST H S has ticked down 20%, going from 343 students in 2018 to 274 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 50% to 60% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 today.

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