SAN SABA H S
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Test scores
STAAR 2024-25 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 12 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 53 and 43. Reading scores are up about 25 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 SAN SABA H S
SAN SABA H S is a micro-enrollment 9-12 campus in SAN SABA, Texas, operated by SAN SABA ISD. The school hosts 217 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 796 students per school, that is 73% leaner than typical.
Within SAN SABA ISD, which oversees 3 schools and 738 students, SAN SABA H S is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, SAN SABA H S records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 62% of enrollment. Other groups include 37% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.
On the income-and-resources front, SAN SABA H S records 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting SAN SABA H S tighter than the state norm the norm. About 74% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, San Saba County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, SAN SABA H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.2%, the actual is 52.7%, a residual of +10.5 points.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for San Saba County put the typical household earns roughly $55,819 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across San Saba County's 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 981 students), SAN SABA H S is one campus in the mix.
SAN SABA MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around SAN SABA H S. On composite proficiency, SAN SABA H S comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 48.8%.
The school occupies a rural site.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 19%: 183 students in 2018 compared to 217 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 49% to 62% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 8.2:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 today.
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