ITALY H S

Located at 300 S COLLEGE, in ITALY, Texas, ITALY H S is a rural-scale senior high that teaches 283 students (grades 7 through 12), run under ITALY ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 64% below the state mean of about 796.

ITALY ISD runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 597 students. ITALY H S is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ITALY H S reports that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 35% Hispanic, 11% Black, 2% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

Looking at school resources, ITALY H S lists 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, ITALY H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.6%, the actual is 41.5%, a residual of -13.1 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Ellis County) records that the typical household earns roughly $99,595 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Ellis County runs 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,344 students), of which ITALY H S is one.

STAFFORD EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, ITALY H S comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 37.4%.

ITALY H S operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. ITALY H S's enrollment has rose 9% since 2018, when it stood at 259 (now 283). The Black share of enrollment edged down from 16% to 11% over that span.

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