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LAKE DALLAS H S
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 30 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 42 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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 LAKE DALLAS H S
LAKE DALLAS H S operates as a large four-year high school in CORINTH, Texas, one of the schools within LAKE DALLAS ISD. Current enrollment sits at 1,283 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 61% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.
LAKE DALLAS H S is one of 5 schools operated by LAKE DALLAS ISD, a district that teaches 3,717 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, LAKE DALLAS H S records that 45% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 36% Hispanic, 9% Black, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 57% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, On paper, LAKE DALLAS H S has 82 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 35% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LAKE DALLAS H S sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.6%; this one delivers 58.1%.
Around the school, census data for Denton County shows median household earnings sit near $111,498, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Denton County runs 267 public schools (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students), of which LAKE DALLAS H S is one.
The closest other public school is CORINTH EL, roughly 0.5 miles away. 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), LAKE DALLAS H S ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 48.3%.
Geographically, the school is in a residential area.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LAKE DALLAS H S has changed only slightly, going from 1,260 students in 2018 to 1,283 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 54% to 45%.
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