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HIRSCHI H S
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
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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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