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LAGO VISTA H S
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 47 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 16 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% 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 LAGO VISTA H S
LAGO VISTA H S operates as a close-knit secondary school in LAGO VISTA, Texas, one of the schools within LAGO VISTA ISD. Current enrollment sits at 650 students spanning grades 9 through 12.
Across the 4 schools in LAGO VISTA ISD (1,887 students total), LAGO VISTA H S accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, LAGO VISTA H S records that White students make up the majority at 62%; the rest looks like 30% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 23% of students are eligible 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 meaningfully below typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LAGO VISTA H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.9%, the actual is 60.3%, a residual of -3.6 points.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Travis County put median household income runs about $99,611, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. LAGO VISTA H S is one of 333 public schools in Travis County (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students).
Nearest neighbor: LAGO VISTA EL, around 0.8 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LAGO VISTA H S at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 56.3%.
Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LAGO VISTA H S has ticked up 45%, going from 447 students in 2018 to 650 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 75% to 62%. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.
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