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LEHMAN H S
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About LEHMAN H S
Located at 1700 LEHMAN RD, in KYLE, Texas, LEHMAN H S is a roomy secondary school that instructs 2,128 students (grades 9 through 12), run under HAYS CISD. That puts it 167% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.
HAYS CISD comprises 27 schools with combined enrollment of 24,330 students; LEHMAN H S is among them.
On the student-mix side, LEHMAN H S records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (82%). Beyond that, the school reports 11% White, 5% Black. By comparison, Hays County as a whole is about 39% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, LEHMAN H S has 125 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.0:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 56% of students at LEHMAN H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Hays County runs at roughly 46%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, LEHMAN H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 51.1%, a residual of +1.8 points.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Hays County indicate the typical household earns roughly $89,097 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Hays County runs 63 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,946 students), of which LEHMAN H S is one.
The closest other public school is SUSIE FUENTES EL, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LEHMAN H S at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 44.9%.
The campus sits in a small-town setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LEHMAN H S has fell 17%, going from 2,566 students in 2018 to 2,128 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 17% to 11% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 today.
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