HILL COUNTRY COLLEGE PREP H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 94 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 93 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 8 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 26 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 94% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 66% 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 28 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
About HILL COUNTRY COLLEGE PREP H S
HILL COUNTRY COLLEGE PREP H S is a rural-scale high school in BULVERDE, Texas, one of the schools within COMAL ISD. The school serves 178 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 78% smaller than the state mean of about 796.
COMAL ISD comprises 37 schools with combined enrollment of 29,839 students; HILL COUNTRY COLLEGE PREP H S is among them.
Demographically, HILL COUNTRY COLLEGE PREP H S shows that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 36% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 71%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, HILL COUNTRY COLLEGE PREP H S has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 19% of students at HILL COUNTRY COLLEGE PREP H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Comal County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, HILL COUNTRY COLLEGE PREP H S sits in the top 10% of Texas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 65.8%; actual is 94.3%, +28.5 points clear of the demographic baseline.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Comal County put the typical household earns roughly $101,889 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Comal County's 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,653 students), HILL COUNTRY COLLEGE PREP H S is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: JOHNSON RANCH EL, around 1.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, HILL COUNTRY COLLEGE PREP H S comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 68.8%.
The campus sits in a countryside setting.
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Comal County at a glance
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