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RAINS H S
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 50 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 29 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 50 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 56% 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 RAINS H S
RAINS H S is a secondary school of intimate scale in EMORY, Texas, operated by RAINS ISD, instructing 531 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so RAINS H S sits 33% smaller than that benchmark.
Across the 4 schools in RAINS ISD (1,712 students total), RAINS H S accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
For racial and ethnic makeup, RAINS H S lists that the largest single group is White, at 71% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 21% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Rains County as a whole is about 84% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, RAINS H S logs 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 56% of students at RAINS H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
With demographic context factored in, RAINS H S sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.5%; this one delivers 55.8%.
In the broader community, Rains County reports that the typical household earns roughly $65,413 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. RAINS H S is one of 4 public schools in Rains County (combined enrollment of about 1,712 students).
RAINS J H is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts RAINS H S at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 44.8%.
The school occupies a small-town site.
Five-year trend. RAINS H S's enrollment has expanded 11% since 2018, when it stood at 479 (now 531). White enrollment moved from 78% to 71% across the same window.
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