GOODRICH 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 23 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 53 points since 2020.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 31% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 22 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About GOODRICH H S
GOODRICH H S is a high school of very small scale in GOODRICH, Texas, one of the schools within GOODRICH ISD, enrolling 67 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 92% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.
GOODRICH ISD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 266 students; GOODRICH H S is among them.
On the student-mix side, GOODRICH H S lists that 45% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 40% White, 13% Black. The wider county runs roughly 15% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 6.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Polk County's rate of about 65%.
After controlling for student poverty, GOODRICH H S ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 30.9%; GOODRICH H S posts 52.5%, +21.6 points above that line.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Polk County) logs that median household earnings sit near $62,259, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Polk County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,045 students), GOODRICH H S is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is GOODRICH EL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, GOODRICH H S comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 39.0%.
GOODRICH H S operates from a countryside location.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 10%: 61 students in 2018 compared to 67 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 20% to 13% across the same window.
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- GOODRICH ELElementary · 147 students
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- GOODRICH EL0.0 mi · 147
- GOODRICH MIDDLE0.0 mi · 52
- PINE RIDGE PRI7.0 mi · 439
- CREEKSIDE EL7.1 mi · 504
- CEDAR GROVE EL7.2 mi · 513
- TIMBER CREEK EL7.4 mi · 499