MOULTON 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 72 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 63 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 62 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 59% 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 MOULTON H S
MOULTON H S operates as a micro-enrollment senior high in MOULTON, Texas, operated by MOULTON ISD. Current enrollment sits at 123 students spanning grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so MOULTON H S sits 85% smaller than that benchmark.
Across the 2 schools in MOULTON ISD (293 students total), MOULTON H S accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
For racial and ethnic makeup, MOULTON H S records that the most-represented group is White (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 45% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, MOULTON H S lists 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting MOULTON H S tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 46% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Lavaca County's rate of about 35%.
After controlling for student poverty, MOULTON H S sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.6%; this one delivers 58.8%.
In the broader community, Lavaca County reports that median household income runs about $63,240, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Lavaca County runs 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,547 students), of which MOULTON H S is one.
Nearest neighbor: MOULTON EL, around 0.1 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MOULTON H S at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 58.8%.
The school occupies a countryside site.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 126 students in 2018 compared to 123 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 57% to 50% over that span.
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