MEDINA SCHOOL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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 MEDINA SCHOOL
MEDINA SCHOOL, a close-knit multi-level school in MEDINA, Texas, one of the schools within MEDINA ISD, caters to 243 students, covering grades pre-K through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 485 students each, so MEDINA SCHOOL sits 50% leaner than that benchmark.
MEDINA SCHOOL sits inside MEDINA ISD, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.
On demographics, MEDINA SCHOOL reports that 67% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 26% Hispanic, 5% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 58% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
With demographic context factored in, MEDINA SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.5%; this one delivers 46.0%.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Bandera County put median household earnings sit near $75,813, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Bandera County's 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,461 students), MEDINA SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: BANDERA MIDDLE, around 11.5 miles off. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MEDINA SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 44.3%.
Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 25%: 322 students in 2018 compared to 243 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 10.4:1 in 2018 to 7.3:1 today.
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