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LAMPASAS H S
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 48 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 26 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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 LAMPASAS H S
Set in LAMPASAS, Texas, LAMPASAS H S is a mid-sized four-year high school, operated by LAMPASAS ISD. It instructs 1,145 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 44% bigger than the state mean of about 796.
LAMPASAS ISD runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 3,640 students. LAMPASAS H S is one of those campuses.
Demographically, LAMPASAS H S logs that the largest single group is White, at 61% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 29% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 77% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, On paper, LAMPASAS H S has 75 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 42% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Lampasas County's rate of about 52%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, LAMPASAS H S sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.5%; this one delivers 60.5%.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Lampasas County indicate the typical household earns roughly $81,736 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Lampasas County runs 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,956 students), of which LAMPASAS H S is one.
The closest other public school is LAMPASAS MIDDLE, roughly 1.4 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, LAMPASAS H S comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 45.8%.
Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 13%: 1,011 students in 2018 compared to 1,145 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 66% to 61%. Class-load math has loosened: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.
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