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ROBSTOWN EARLY COLLEGE H S
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ROBSTOWN EARLY COLLEGE H S
ROBSTOWN EARLY COLLEGE H S operates as a medium-sized senior high in ROBSTOWN, Texas, overseen by ROBSTOWN ISD. Current enrollment sits at 750 students spanning grades 9 through 12.
Across the 5 schools in ROBSTOWN ISD (2,570 students total), ROBSTOWN EARLY COLLEGE H S accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
For racial and ethnic makeup, ROBSTOWN EARLY COLLEGE H S logs that nearly all students (96%) are Hispanic. The remainder consists of 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 63% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting ROBSTOWN EARLY COLLEGE H S tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 86% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Nueces County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ROBSTOWN EARLY COLLEGE H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.5%, the actual is 31.5%, a residual of -5.0 points.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Nueces County put median household income runs about $66,897, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Nueces County's 124 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,619 students), ROBSTOWN EARLY COLLEGE H S is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: ROBERT DRISCOLL JR STEM ACADEMY, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around ROBSTOWN EARLY COLLEGE H S. On composite proficiency, ROBSTOWN EARLY COLLEGE H S comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 39.6%.
Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 9%: 690 students in 2018 compared to 750 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.
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