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What's the one class at POTEET H S every student should take?
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Enrollment
1,523
High
DISTRICT 1,754 · STATE 796
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MESQUITE ISD·NCES 483039006301
Poteet High School
3300 POTEET DR, MESQUITE, TX 75150 · (972) 882-5300 · Dallas County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,523 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 26% of Texas public high schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public high schools
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
111 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.2:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
64%
979 students
DISTRICT 82% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 374 | 25% |
| Grade 10 | 377 | 25% |
| Grade 11 | 378 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 394 | 26% |
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
51.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +21.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
29.0%
TX avg 45.3% . -6.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 29 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 21 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 6 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 6.0% | 45.0% | 22.0% | 27.0% |
| Mathematics | 6.0% | 23.0% | 43.0% | 28.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 51.0% | 29.0% |
| 2024-25 | 46.0% | 32.0% |
| 2023-24 | 49.0% | 32.0% |
| 2022-23 | 39.0% | 39.0% |
| 2021-22 | 33.0% | 47.0% |
| 2020-21 | 30.0% | 35.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
48.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.2%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Poteet High School
Poteet High School's state test result (48.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poteet High School this school | 1,523 | 64.3% | 48.3% |
| Carl Wunsche Sr High School SPRING | 1,503 | 66.5% | 82.8% |
| Lovelady High School PRINCETON | 1,388 | 65.4% | 53.0% |
| Arlington Heights High School FORT WORTH | 1,898 | 67.8% | 37.3% |
| Temple High School TEMPLE | 2,320 | 66.0% | 43.6% |
| Princeton Sr High School PRINCETON | 1,262 | 62.0% | 38.8% |
Matched among Texas high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Poteet High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Dallas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.3% | #881 of 1,385 | #43 of 96 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 29.0% | #1,121 of 1,425 ▼ 191 | #75 of 100 ▼ 20 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.0% | #943 of 1,425 ▲ 48 | #52 of 100 ▼ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.0pp | #1,051 of 1,184 | #81 of 98 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,523 | #453 of 2,107 | #42 of 133 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #521 of 1,344 | #14 of 101 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.8% | #310 of 1,346 | #16 of 101 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 64.3% | #710 of 1,522 | #81 of 107 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.6% | #134 of 557 | #21 of 55 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,523
-228 (-13%) vs 2020
+14% since 1990-91, when it was 1,338
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
was 15.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,523 | 110.7 | 13.8:1 | 64% (979) |
| 2023-24 | 1,527 | 109.7 | 13.9:1 | 72% (1,093) |
| 2022-23 | 1,592 | 110.4 | 14.4:1 | 71% (1,129) |
| 2020-21 | 1,751 | 114 | 15.4:1 | 60% (1,043) |
| 2017-18 | 1,848 | 118.6 | 15.6:1 | 50% (917) |
| 2015-16 | 1,814 | 111 | 16.3:1 | 53% (969) |
| 2010-11 | 1,577 | 105 | 15.0:1 | 44% (695) |
| 2000-01 | 1,655 | 104 | 15.9:1 | 8% (125) |
| 1990-91 | 1,338 | 54 | 24.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Poteet High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (1,848 to 1,523); teachers down 7% (118.6 to 110.7).
About Poteet High School
Poteet High School is a public high school run by MESQUITE ISD in MESQUITE, Texas. It covers grades 9 through 12, with a total enrollment of 1,523 students. Enrollment is 91% higher than the average for high schools in Texas, which is about 796.
MESQUITE ISD is the district for Poteet High School. It has 51 schools and 37,930 students.
At 54%, Hispanic students outnumber all other groups at Poteet High School combined. Other students are 27% Black, 13% White, 3% multiracial, and 3% Asian. By comparison, Dallas County residents are about 41% Hispanic. Poteet High School has a diversity index of 62%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
A ratio of 13.8:1 comes from the school's 110.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 15.1:1 average for high schools in Texas is higher than this school's figure. The lunch program counts 64% of students at Poteet High School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The 77% average for public schools in Dallas County is 13 points higher.
Poteet High School is graded C by allk12, scoring above 26% of Texas public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Poteet High School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Texas schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate on state tests of 48.3% and a predicted 46.2%.
Within Dallas County, median household income is about $76,547, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of people live in poverty. The public schools of Dallas County number 771 and enroll about 459,645.
Austin Elementary School is the closest public school, about 0.3 miles away in a straight line. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Poteet High School places 2nd of 7 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
The NCES locale for Poteet High School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Poteet High School went from 1,751 students to 1,523. Its ratio of students to teachers was 15.4:1 in 2020-21, and 13.8:1 in 2024-25.
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Dallas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,621,179
Census ACS
Median income
$76,547
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
771
459,645 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MESQUITE ISD
- Horn High SchoolHigh · 2,757 students
- Mesquite High SchoolHigh · 2,294 students
- North Mesquite High SchoolHigh · 2,099 students
- West Mesquite High SchoolHigh · 1,997 students
- Vroonland - Vanguard High SchoolHigh · 1,605 students
- Kimbrough Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,115 students
Other schools in MESQUITE
- Horn High SchoolHigh · 2,757 students
- Mesquite High SchoolHigh · 2,294 students
- North Mesquite High SchoolHigh · 2,099 students
- West Mesquite High SchoolHigh · 1,997 students
- Vroonland - Vanguard High SchoolHigh · 1,605 students
- Kimbrough Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,115 students
Other Poteet High schools
One other US public school is named Poteet High. Poteet High School is the largest of the 2.
- Poteet High SchoolPOTEET, TX · 481 students
Nearby schools
- Austin Elementary School0.3 mi · 306
- Cannaday Elementary School0.6 mi · 616
- Beasley Elementary School0.7 mi · 319
- Education Center International Academy 10.7 mi · 131
- Kimbrough Middle School0.8 mi · 1,115
- Kimball Elementary School1.0 mi · 208
Frequently asked questions
About Poteet High SchoolHow large is Poteet High School?
Poteet High School enrolls approximately 1,523 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does Poteet High School serve?
Poteet High School serves grades 09-12.
How many teachers does Poteet High School have?
Poteet High School employs 111 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.8:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Poteet High School?
At Poteet High School, the student body is approximately 13% White, 54% Hispanic, 27% Black, 3% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Poteet High School?
Poteet High School is overseen by MESQUITE ISD in Dallas County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.