IOWA COLONY H S

IOWA COLONY H S is a 9-12 campus of high-enrollment scale in IOWA COLONY, Texas, part of ALVIN ISD, works with 1,781 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so IOWA COLONY H S sits 124% above that benchmark.

IOWA COLONY H S is one of 37 schools operated by ALVIN ISD, a district that caters to 30,038 students overall.

On demographics, IOWA COLONY H S records that the largest single group is Black at 40%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 40% Hispanic, 11% White, 6% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Brazoria County as a whole is about 16% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 108 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 52% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, IOWA COLONY H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.3%, the actual is 52.0%, a residual of +0.7 points.

In the area at large, census data for Brazoria County shows the typical household earns roughly $97,993 per year, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Brazoria County runs 115 public schools (combined enrollment of about 75,767 students), of which IOWA COLONY H S is one.

IOWA COLONY J H is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), IOWA COLONY H S ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 50.2%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

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