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PASCHAL H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 37 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 27 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 30 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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 PASCHAL H S
Located at 3001 FOREST PARK BLVD, in FORT WORTH, Texas, PASCHAL H S is a substantial senior high that teaches 2,127 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within FORT WORTH ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so PASCHAL H S sits 167% above that benchmark.
FORT WORTH ISD runs 136 schools in total, collectively educating 70,612 students. PASCHAL H S is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, PASCHAL H S lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 62% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 26% White, 7% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 128 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 59% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
With demographic context factored in, PASCHAL H S tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 45.6%.
Across the wider county, census data for Tarrant County shows median household earnings sit near $84,207, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. PASCHAL H S is one of 639 public schools in Tarrant County (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students).
Nearest neighbor: ALICE CARLSON APPLIED LRN CTR, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PASCHAL H S ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 41.1%.
Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PASCHAL H S has contracted 16%, going from 2,522 students in 2018 to 2,127 in 2025.
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