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SACHSE H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 60 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 33 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 17 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 54% 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 15 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About SACHSE H S
Set in SACHSE, Texas, SACHSE H S is a substantial senior high, run under GARLAND ISD. It enrolls 2,935 students across grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 796 students per school, that is 269% above typical.
GARLAND ISD runs 76 schools in total, collectively educating 53,173 students. SACHSE H S is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, SACHSE H S lists that the largest single group is White at 30%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 30% Hispanic, 21% Black, 13% Asian, 4% multiracial.
On the income-and-resources front, SACHSE H S logs 170 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting SACHSE H S higher than the state norm the norm. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Dallas County (around 77%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, SACHSE 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 54.4%; SACHSE H S posts 69.0%, +14.6 points above that line.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Dallas County shows the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which SACHSE H S is one.
The closest other public school is B G HUDSON MIDDLE, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SACHSE H S. On composite proficiency, SACHSE H S comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 58.8%.
SACHSE H S operates from a residential location.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 6%: 2,765 students in 2018 compared to 2,935 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 35% to 30% over that span. Class-load math has grew: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 in 2025.
Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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