PARADISE H S

PARADISE H S is a compact secondary school in PARADISE, Texas, overseen by PARADISE ISD. The school teaches 373 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so PARADISE H S sits 53% smaller than that benchmark.

PARADISE ISD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,331 students; PARADISE H S is among them.

Looking at the student body, PARADISE H S lists that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Wise County as a whole.

On the resource side, PARADISE H S logs 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 23% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Wise County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PARADISE H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.0%, the actual is 67.8%, a residual of +3.7 points.

In the broader community, Wise County reports that the typical household earns roughly $93,421 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Wise County's 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,854 students), PARADISE H S is one campus in the mix.

PARADISE MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around PARADISE H S. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PARADISE H S at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 44.7%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 7%: 349 students in 2018 compared to 373 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 87% to 78% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

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