HEREFORD H S

As a mid-tier four-year high school in HEREFORD, Texas, HEREFORD H S serves 1,182 students from grades 9 through 12, run under HEREFORD ISD. Compared to the state average of about 796 students per school, that is 48% bigger than typical.

HEREFORD ISD runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 3,964 students. HEREFORD H S is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, HEREFORD H S records that 90% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest comes out to 9% White. By comparison, Deaf Smith County as a whole is about 76% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 78 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 74% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, HEREFORD H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.7%, the actual is 41.6%, a residual of -0.1 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Deaf Smith County) reports that median household income runs about $60,799, roughly 11% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Deaf Smith County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,110 students), HEREFORD H S is one campus in the mix.

AIKMAN EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around HEREFORD H S. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HEREFORD H S ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 35.6%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 8%: 1,091 students in 2018 compared to 1,182 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 84% to 90%.

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