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MCGREGOR 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 60 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 66 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 56 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 53 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About MCGREGOR H S
MCGREGOR H S operates as a small high school in MCGREGOR, Texas, overseen by MCGREGOR ISD. Current enrollment sits at 437 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 796 students per school, that is 45% below typical.
Within MCGREGOR ISD, which oversees 4 schools and 1,495 students, MCGREGOR H S is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, MCGREGOR H S shows that 53% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest reads as 40% White, 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 27% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 52% of students at MCGREGOR H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below McLennan County's rate of about 62%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MCGREGOR H S tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 61.9%.
In the broader community, census data for McLennan County shows the typical household earns roughly $66,643 per year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across McLennan County's 124 public schools (combined enrollment of about 45,703 students), MCGREGOR H S is one campus in the mix.
MCGREGOR EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around MCGREGOR H S. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MCGREGOR H S ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 49.9%.
The campus sits in a small-town setting.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MCGREGOR H S has grew 4%, going from 420 students in 2018 to 437 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 47% to 53% across the same window.
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