SABINAL SECONDARY

Located at 409 W CULLINS, in SABINAL, Texas, SABINAL SECONDARY is a very small secondary school that educates 224 students (grades 7 through 12), run under SABINAL ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 72% below the state mean of about 796.

SABINAL ISD comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 462 students; SABINAL SECONDARY is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SABINAL SECONDARY reports that 82% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest comes out to 17% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 71%.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.8:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Uvalde County's rate of about 79%.

With demographic context factored in, SABINAL SECONDARY is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 46.2%; SABINAL SECONDARY posts 32.1%, -14.1 points below that line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Uvalde County) records that the typical household earns roughly $53,801 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 21%. In all, Uvalde County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,371 students), of which SABINAL SECONDARY is one.

SABINAL EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 2 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SABINAL SECONDARY ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 43.1%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 27%: 177 students in 2018 compared to 224 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 24% to 17% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.