REAGAN COUNTY H S

REAGAN COUNTY H S is a four-year high school of minimally staffed scale in BIG LAKE, Texas, part of REAGAN COUNTY ISD, teacheing 229 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 71% below the state mean of about 796.

REAGAN COUNTY ISD runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 855 students. REAGAN COUNTY H S is one of those campuses.

On demographics, REAGAN COUNTY H S logs that nearly all students (83%) are Hispanic. The remainder breaks down as 16% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

On the income-and-resources front, REAGAN COUNTY H S logs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting REAGAN COUNTY H S tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 53% of students at REAGAN COUNTY H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Reagan County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, REAGAN COUNTY H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.6%, the actual is 46.3%, a residual of -4.4 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Reagan County put median household income runs about $57,813, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Reagan County's 3 public schools (combined enrollment of about 855 students), REAGAN COUNTY H S is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: REAGAN COUNTY MIDDLE, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, REAGAN COUNTY H S comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 38.5%.

REAGAN COUNTY H S operates from a low-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 229 students in 2018 compared to 229 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 8.8:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 today.

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