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LAKE WORTH H S
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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 16 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 11 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 14 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% 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 WORTH H S
LAKE WORTH H S is one of the middle-of-the-pack 9-12 campuss in LAKE WORTH, Texas, one of the schools within LAKE WORTH ISD, with 953 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12.
LAKE WORTH H S is one of 6 schools operated by LAKE WORTH ISD, a district that works with 3,249 students overall.
On demographics, LAKE WORTH H S shows that 55% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 24% Black, 15% White, 2% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 30% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, LAKE WORTH H S shows 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.5:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 87% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LAKE WORTH H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.9%, the actual is 31.9%, a residual of -4.1 points.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Tarrant County shows the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. LAKE WORTH H S is one of 639 public schools in Tarrant County (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students).
Nearest neighbor: MARINE CREEK LEADERSHIP ACADEMY, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LAKE WORTH H S at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 34.3%.
The school occupies an outer-ring site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LAKE WORTH H S has increased 10%, going from 868 students in 2018 to 953 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share expanded from 17% to 24%.
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