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HALLSVILLE 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 74 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 59 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 43 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 18 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 59% 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 15 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About HALLSVILLE H S
Set in HALLSVILLE, Texas, HALLSVILLE H S is a large secondary school, part of HALLSVILLE ISD. It caters to 1,451 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts it 82% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.
HALLSVILLE ISD comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 24,602 students; HALLSVILLE H S is among them.
On the student-mix side, HALLSVILLE H S logs that 67% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 8% Black, 5% multiracial.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 116 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting HALLSVILLE H S tighter than the state norm the norm. About 35% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Harrison County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), HALLSVILLE H S sits in the top 10% of Texas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 58.5%; actual is 73.9%, +15.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.
In the surrounding community, Harrison County reports that median household earnings sit near $66,103, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. HALLSVILLE H S is one of 29 public schools in Harrison County (combined enrollment of about 32,062 students).
Nearest neighbor: HALLSVILLE NORTH EL, around 0.8 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HALLSVILLE H S ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 57.3%.
Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 1,461 students in 2018 compared to 1,451 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 73% to 67% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.
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Harrison County at a glance
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