MARTINS MILL H S
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 14 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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 MARTINS MILL H S
MARTINS MILL H S operates as a minimally staffed secondary school in MARTIN'S MILL, Texas, overseen by MARTINS MILL ISD. Current enrollment sits at 262 students spanning grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so MARTINS MILL H S sits 67% leaner than that benchmark.
MARTINS MILL ISD comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 496 students; MARTINS MILL H S is among them.
Looking at the student body, MARTINS MILL H S reports that White students make up the majority at 70%; the rest looks like 26% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Van Zandt County as a whole is about 84% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting MARTINS MILL H S tighter than the state norm the norm. About 45% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Van Zandt County runs at roughly 56%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, MARTINS MILL H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.4%, the actual is 50.5%, a residual of -3.9 points.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Van Zandt County) logs that median household earnings sit near $69,475, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. MARTINS MILL H S is one of 29 public schools in Van Zandt County (combined enrollment of about 10,738 students).
MARTINS MILL EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around MARTINS MILL H S. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MARTINS MILL H S ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 51.7%.
MARTINS MILL H S operates from a rural location.
Over the past 7-year window. MARTINS MILL H S's enrollment has rose 19% since 2018, when it stood at 220 (now 262). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 77% to 70%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 8.8:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.
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