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MANSFIELD LEGACY 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 57 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 29 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 25 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About MANSFIELD LEGACY H S
MANSFIELD LEGACY H S operates as a sizable secondary school in MANSFIELD, Texas, overseen by MANSFIELD ISD. Current enrollment sits at 2,568 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so MANSFIELD LEGACY H S sits 223% bigger than that benchmark.
MANSFIELD ISD comprises 47 schools with combined enrollment of 35,354 students; MANSFIELD LEGACY H S is among them.
On the student-mix side, MANSFIELD LEGACY H S logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 36%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 33% White, 23% Black, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian.
On the resource side, The school lists 146 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 49% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), MANSFIELD LEGACY H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.6%, the actual is 59.6%, a residual of +7.0 points.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Tarrant County put the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. MANSFIELD LEGACY H S is one of 639 public schools in Tarrant County (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students).
ALICE PONDER EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MANSFIELD LEGACY H S ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 58.9%.
The school occupies an outer-ring site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MANSFIELD LEGACY H S has expanded 25%, going from 2,061 students in 2018 to 2,568 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 48% to 33% over that span.
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