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ROCKPORT-FULTON H S
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 42 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 47 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 6 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ROCKPORT-FULTON H S
ROCKPORT-FULTON H S is a medium-sized high school in ROCKPORT, Texas, one of the schools within ROCKPORT-FULTON ISD. The school enrolls 918 students in grades 9 through 12.
Within ROCKPORT-FULTON ISD, which oversees 4 schools and 2,913 students, ROCKPORT-FULTON H S is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, ROCKPORT-FULTON H S reports that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 40% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Aransas County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, ROCKPORT-FULTON H S shows 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 54% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Aransas County's rate of about 63%.
After controlling for student poverty, ROCKPORT-FULTON H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.2%, the actual is 55.5%, a residual of +5.3 points.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Aransas County put the typical household earns roughly $69,466 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Aransas County runs 4 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,913 students), of which ROCKPORT-FULTON H S is one.
ROCKPORT-FULTON MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ROCKPORT-FULTON H S ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 43.3%.
ROCKPORT-FULTON H S operates from a small-town location.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 18%: 781 students in 2018 compared to 918 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.
In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Aransas County at a glance
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