MILANO 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 76 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 50 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 9 points since 2020.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 68% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About MILANO H S
MILANO H S is a secondary school of very small scale in MILANO, Texas, part of MILANO ISD, enrolling 148 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 81% leaner than the state mean of about 796.
MILANO ISD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 423 students; MILANO H S is among them.
Looking at the student body, MILANO H S logs that 57% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder looks like 31% Hispanic, 5% Black, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 69% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.
On the resource side, On paper, MILANO H S has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 6.6:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Milam County (around 62%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MILANO H S sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 54.1%; this one delivers 68.1%.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Milam County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,141 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. MILANO H S is one of 17 public schools in Milam County (combined enrollment of about 4,337 students).
MILANO J H is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MILANO H S at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 47.0%.
Geographically, the school is in a rural area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MILANO H S has ticked down 15%, going from 174 students in 2018 to 148 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 66% to 57% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 9.1:1 in 2018 to 6.6:1 today.
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