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GODLEY H S
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 25 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 20 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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 GODLEY H S
Set in GODLEY, Texas, GODLEY H S is a reasonably sized four-year high school, operated by GODLEY ISD. It enrolls 868 students across grades 9 through 12.
GODLEY H S is one of 5 schools operated by GODLEY ISD, a district that caters to 3,195 students overall.
Demographically, GODLEY H S lists that 56% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 36% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Johnson County as a whole is about 72% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, On paper, GODLEY H S has 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.0:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 41% of students at GODLEY H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Johnson County's rate of about 51%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GODLEY H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.8%, the actual is 44.3%, a residual of -11.6 points.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Johnson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $84,859 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Johnson County's 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 39,004 students), GODLEY H S is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: GODLEY MIDDLE, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around GODLEY H S. On composite proficiency, GODLEY H S comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.5%.
The school occupies a small-town site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GODLEY H S has expanded 62%, going from 537 students in 2018 to 868 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 72% to 56% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.
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