ROSIE SORRELLS EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 100 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 24 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 84% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 39% 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 44 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ROSIE SORRELLS EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES H S
ROSIE SORRELLS EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES H S is a rural-scale four-year high school in DALLAS, Texas, operated by DALLAS ISD. The school instructs 168 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so ROSIE SORRELLS EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES H S sits 79% below that benchmark.
ROSIE SORRELLS EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES H S is one of 240 schools operated by DALLAS ISD, a district that educates 140,630 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, ROSIE SORRELLS EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES H S records that 76% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 19% Black, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 41% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, ROSIE SORRELLS EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES H S shows 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.2:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ROSIE SORRELLS EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES H S ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 39.3%; ROSIE SORRELLS EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES H S posts 83.5%, +44.2 points above that line.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Dallas County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. ROSIE SORRELLS EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES H S is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).
The closest other public school is SCHOOL FOR THE TALENTED AND GIFTED, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ROSIE SORRELLS EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES H S at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 80.7%.
The school occupies a downtown site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ROSIE SORRELLS EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES H S has declined 49%, going from 331 students in 2018 to 168 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment declined from 27% to 19% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 in 2025.
On the community side, members of the ROSIE SORRELLS EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES H S community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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