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LOVEJOY H S
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 90 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 82 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 19 points since 2020.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About LOVEJOY H S
LOVEJOY H S is a secondary school of substantial scale in LUCAS, Texas, overseen by LOVEJOY ISD, caters to 1,581 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 99% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.
LOVEJOY ISD comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 4,019 students; LOVEJOY H S is among them.
Demographically, LOVEJOY H S logs that White students make up the majority at 69%. Other groups include 14% Asian, 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Collin County as a whole is about 54% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, LOVEJOY H S has 98 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.2:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Collin County) shows that median household income runs about $121,600, 56% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. LOVEJOY H S is one of 338 public schools in Collin County (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students).
WALTER & LOIS CURTIS MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.
Five-year trend. LOVEJOY H S's enrollment has climbed 7% since 2018, when it stood at 1,484 (now 1,581). White enrollment moved from 79% to 69% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 in 2025.
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