NATALIA 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 42 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are down about 5 points since 2020.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 NATALIA H S
NATALIA H S operates as a close-knit 9-12 campus in NATALIA, Texas, run under NATALIA ISD. Current enrollment sits at 352 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so NATALIA H S sits 56% leaner than that benchmark.
Within NATALIA ISD, which oversees 4 schools and 1,315 students, NATALIA H S is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, NATALIA H S shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (85%); the rest consists of 14% White. The wider county runs roughly 52% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, NATALIA H S shows 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.4:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 73% of students at NATALIA H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Medina County (around 57%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
After controlling for student poverty, NATALIA H S sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.0%; this one delivers 42.4%.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Medina County) logs that median household income runs about $78,074, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. NATALIA H S is one of 24 public schools in Medina County (combined enrollment of about 13,127 students).
NATALIA J H is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, NATALIA H S comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 30.8%.
NATALIA H S operates from a rural location.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at NATALIA H S has ticked up 19%, going from 297 students in 2018 to 352 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 77% to 85% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 today.
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