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LOVELADY H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 39 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 22 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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%.
About LOVELADY H S
Located at 501 N BOORMAN LN, in PRINCETON, Texas, LOVELADY H S is an expansive four-year high school that enrolls 1,388 students (grades 9 through 10), operated by PRINCETON ISD. Compared to the state average of about 796 students per school, that is 74% larger than typical.
PRINCETON ISD runs 14 schools in total, collectively educating 9,956 students. LOVELADY H S is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, LOVELADY H S records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 25% Black, 21% White, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.
On the resource side, On paper, LOVELADY H S has 93 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Collin County's rate of about 30%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, LOVELADY H S sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.3%; this one delivers 52.0%.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Collin County put median household earnings sit near $121,600, about 56% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Collin County runs 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students), of which LOVELADY H S is one.
Nearest neighbor: PRINCETON SR H S, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LOVELADY H S. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LOVELADY H S ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 45.7%.
The campus sits in a town-center setting.
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