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JOHN B CONNALLY H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 10 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 9 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 JOHN B CONNALLY H S
JOHN B CONNALLY H S operates as a sprawling 9-12 campus in AUSTIN, Texas, operated by PFLUGERVILLE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 1,974 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so JOHN B CONNALLY H S sits 148% larger than that benchmark.
JOHN B CONNALLY H S is one of 35 schools operated by PFLUGERVILLE ISD, a district that works with 25,477 students overall.
Demographically, JOHN B CONNALLY H S reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 66% of enrollment; the rest reads as 15% Black, 9% Asian, 8% White. By comparison, Travis County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, JOHN B CONNALLY H S shows 142 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting JOHN B CONNALLY H S tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 68% of students at JOHN B CONNALLY H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Travis County (around 54%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JOHN B CONNALLY H S sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.1%; this one delivers 33.8%.
Around the school, census data for Travis County shows median household income runs about $99,611, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. JOHN B CONNALLY H S is one of 333 public schools in Travis County (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students).
Nearest neighbor: WESTVIEW MIDDLE, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JOHN B CONNALLY H S ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 43.4%.
The school occupies a city-core site.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 6%: 1,857 students in 2018 compared to 1,974 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 55% to 66%.
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