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HIRSCHI H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 19 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 10 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 9 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% 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%.
6-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2023-24About HIRSCHI H S
HIRSCHI H S operates as an average-sized four-year high school in WICHITA FALLS, Texas, operated by WICHITA FALLS ISD. Current enrollment sits at 770 students spanning grades 8 through 12.
WICHITA FALLS ISD runs 25 schools in total, collectively educating 16,226 students. HIRSCHI H S is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, HIRSCHI H S records that 41% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder is composed of 31% Black, 22% White, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 80% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Wichita County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, HIRSCHI H S sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.0%; this one delivers 29.9%.
Across the wider county, Wichita County reports that median household earnings sit near $63,524, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Wichita County's 53 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,047 students), HIRSCHI H S is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: HIRSCHI MIDDLE, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HIRSCHI H S. On composite proficiency, HIRSCHI H S comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 31.8%.
Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.
Five-year trend. Looking back 6 years, enrollment at HIRSCHI H S has fell 16%, going from 918 students in 2018 to 770 in 2024. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 35% to 41%. Class-load math has loosened: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2024.
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