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HORIZON H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About HORIZON H S
HORIZON H S, a big senior high in EL PASO, Texas, overseen by CLINT ISD, teaches 1,469 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so HORIZON H S sits 85% larger than that benchmark.
CLINT ISD runs 14 schools in total, collectively educating 10,077 students. HORIZON H S is one of those campuses.
Demographically, HORIZON H S records that 95% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder comes out to 4% White. By comparison, El Paso County as a whole is about 83% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the resource side, The school currently runs with 99 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.9:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 87% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against El Paso County (around 74%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, HORIZON H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.9%, the actual is 45.9%, a residual of +10.0 points.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for El Paso County indicate the typical household earns roughly $59,806 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. HORIZON H S is one of 273 public schools in El Paso County (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students).
CARROLL T WELCH EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HORIZON H S ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 37.7%.
The school occupies an outlying site.
Over the past 7-year window. HORIZON H S's enrollment has ticked down 5% since 2018, when it stood at 1,553 (now 1,469). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.
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