Lapoynor High School

In LARUE, Texas, part of Henderson County, Lapoynor High School is a high school. It had 167 students in 2024-25, spanning grades 9 through 12. That compares with an average of about 796 students for high schools in Texas.

Lapoynor High School is one school in a 3-school district, LAPOYNOR ISD, which enrolls 479 students.

A large majority of enrollment at Lapoynor High School is White, at 83%. After that, the student body is 10% Hispanic and 7% Black. The diversity index for Lapoynor High School is 30%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.

The student-to-teacher ratio at Lapoynor High School is 8.1:1, based on 20.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, high schools in Texas average 15.1:1. Lunch program data show 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Public schools in Henderson County average 66%.

Lapoynor High School is within a point of its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (54.2% versus 53.2%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Texas.

Looking at the county, Henderson County, median household income comes to about $65,179, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 21% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 11%. The county has 32 public schools and about 11,150 students.

Measured in a straight line, Lapoynor Junior High School is less than a tenth of a mile from Lapoynor High School. The five-mile area around Lapoynor High School holds 2 other public schools. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, Lapoynor High School ranks 4th on proficiency.

On the NCES locale scale, the school is Rural: Distant.

From 148 students in 2020-21, enrollment increased to 167 by 2024-25. The school's ratio dropped from 11.4:1 to 8.1:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.

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