MULESHOE 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 61 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 51 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 37 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 9 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 37% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 22 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About MULESHOE H S
MULESHOE H S, a modestly sized 9-12 campus in MULESHOE, Texas, run under MULESHOE ISD, instructs 341 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 57% smaller than the state mean of about 796.
MULESHOE H S is one of 4 schools operated by MULESHOE ISD, a district that works with 1,330 students overall.
In terms of who attends, MULESHOE H S lists that nearly all students (88%) are Hispanic. The remainder consists of 11% White. The wider county runs roughly 66% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, MULESHOE H S shows 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.7:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MULESHOE H S ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 37.4%; MULESHOE H S posts 59.4%, +22.0 points above that line.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Bailey County shows the typical household earns roughly $61,420 per year, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Bailey County's 4 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,330 students), MULESHOE H S is one campus in the mix.
WATSON J H is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MULESHOE H S at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 48.6%.
The school occupies a town-center site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MULESHOE H S has declined 6%, going from 362 students in 2018 to 341 in 2025.
Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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