OVERTON H S

OVERTON H S is one of the very small high schools in OVERTON, Texas, run under OVERTON ISD, with 267 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 66% below the state mean of about 796.

OVERTON ISD comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 523 students; OVERTON H S is among them.

On demographics, OVERTON H S shows that 70% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 13% Hispanic, 9% Black, 6% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 59% of students at OVERTON H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, OVERTON H S falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 48.0%; this one comes in at 33.6%, -14.4 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, census data for Rusk County shows median household earnings sit near $68,658, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. OVERTON H S is one of 29 public schools in Rusk County (combined enrollment of about 10,350 students).

OVERTON EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts OVERTON H S at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 49.7%.

OVERTON H S operates from a countryside location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 7%: 249 students in 2018 compared to 267 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 8% to 13%. Class-load math has widened: from 8.7:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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