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RAYMONDVILLE H S
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 57 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 48 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 57 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 36% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 27 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About RAYMONDVILLE H S
RAYMONDVILLE H S operates as a tight-knit secondary school in RAYMONDVILLE, Texas, one of the schools within RAYMONDVILLE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 522 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 34% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.
RAYMONDVILLE ISD comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,963 students; RAYMONDVILLE H S is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, RAYMONDVILLE H S lists that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Willacy County as a whole is about 87% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the resource side, On paper, RAYMONDVILLE H S has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.9:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 86% of students at RAYMONDVILLE H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
With demographic context factored in, RAYMONDVILLE H S is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 36.2%; this one delivers 63.6%, a residual of +27.4 points.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Willacy County put median household earnings sit near $54,180, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 19%. In all, Willacy County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,889 students), of which RAYMONDVILLE H S is one.
Nearest neighbor: MYRA GREEN MIDDLE, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around RAYMONDVILLE H S. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts RAYMONDVILLE H S at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 40.0%.
The campus sits in a town-center setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. RAYMONDVILLE H S's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 529 (now 522).
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Willacy County at a glance
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