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HORIZON H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 31 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 36 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 20 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% 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%.
7-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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