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LA GRANGE H S
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STAAR 2024-25 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 44 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 53 and 43. Reading scores are up about 39 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About LA GRANGE H S
LA GRANGE H S is one of the compact high schools in LA GRANGE, Texas, operated by LA GRANGE ISD, with 600 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so LA GRANGE H S sits 25% leaner than that benchmark.
Within LA GRANGE ISD, which oversees 3 schools and 1,870 students, LA GRANGE H S is one campus in the system.
Demographically, LA GRANGE H S records that the most-represented group is White (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 39% Hispanic, 8% Black, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 76%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting LA GRANGE H S tighter than the state norm the norm. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LA GRANGE H S sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.3%; this one delivers 59.4%.
In the area at large, Fayette County reports that the typical household earns roughly $75,854 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Fayette County runs 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,755 students), of which LA GRANGE H S is one.
LA GRANGE MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, LA GRANGE H S comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 50.9%.
The campus sits in a town-center setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 5%: 629 students in 2018 compared to 600 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 33% to 39% over that span.
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