HARTS BLUFF EARLY COLLEGE H S
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 24 points since 2020, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 48% 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 18 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
About HARTS BLUFF EARLY COLLEGE H S
Located at 3506 FM 1402, in MOUNT PLEASANT, Texas, HARTS BLUFF EARLY COLLEGE H S is a micro-enrollment senior high that works with 224 students (grades 9 through 12), run under HARTS BLUFF ISD. Compared to the state average of about 796 students per school, that is 72% leaner than typical.
Across the 3 schools in HARTS BLUFF ISD (891 students total), HARTS BLUFF EARLY COLLEGE H S accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, HARTS BLUFF EARLY COLLEGE H S records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 58%. Other groups include 39% White. The wider county runs roughly 45% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the resource side, On paper, HARTS BLUFF EARLY COLLEGE H S has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting HARTS BLUFF EARLY COLLEGE H S tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Titus County runs at roughly 73%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, HARTS BLUFF EARLY COLLEGE H S is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 47.8%; this one delivers 66.0%, a residual of +18.2 points.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Titus County put median household income runs about $58,425, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. HARTS BLUFF EARLY COLLEGE H S is one of 15 public schools in Titus County (combined enrollment of about 6,972 students).
HARTS BLUFF MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HARTS BLUFF EARLY COLLEGE H S. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HARTS BLUFF EARLY COLLEGE H S at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 49.4%.
The campus sits in a small-town setting.
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