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GRANBURY H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 44 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 52 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 35 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About GRANBURY H S
GRANBURY H S is one of the sprawling secondary schools in GRANBURY, Texas, run under GRANBURY ISD, with 2,215 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 178% bigger than the state mean of about 796.
Across the 10 schools in GRANBURY ISD (7,962 students total), GRANBURY H S accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, GRANBURY H S reports that the largest single group is White, at 64% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 29% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 85% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 156 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 45% of students at GRANBURY H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
After controlling for student poverty, GRANBURY H S tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 54.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 63.3%.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Hood County put median household earnings sit near $88,160, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Hood County's 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,530 students), GRANBURY H S is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: GRANBURY MIDDLE, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GRANBURY H S ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 42.3%.
Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GRANBURY H S has climbed 13%, going from 1,968 students in 2018 to 2,215 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 73% to 64%.
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Hood County at a glance
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