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PLEASANTON H S
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 39 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are down about 4 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 50 points.
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Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About PLEASANTON H S
Set in PLEASANTON, Texas, PLEASANTON H S is a medium-sized 9-12 campus, operated by PLEASANTON ISD. It educates 978 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 23% larger than the state mean of about 796.
Within PLEASANTON ISD, which oversees 6 schools and 3,406 students, PLEASANTON H S is one campus in the system.
Demographically, PLEASANTON H S reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 71%; the rest breaks down as 25% White.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, PLEASANTON H S has 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting PLEASANTON H S tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 55% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Atascosa County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, PLEASANTON H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.9%, the actual is 53.4%, a residual of +3.5 points.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Atascosa County put the typical household earns roughly $70,770 per year, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. PLEASANTON H S is one of 32 public schools in Atascosa County (combined enrollment of about 8,105 students).
Nearest neighbor: PLEASANTON J H, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
The campus sits in a town-based setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 994 students in 2018 compared to 978 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 30% to 25% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.
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