SANFORD-FRITCH 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 56 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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 SANFORD-FRITCH H S
As a minimally staffed 9-12 campus in FRITCH, Texas, SANFORD-FRITCH H S serves 236 students from grades 9 through 12, run under SANFORD-FRITCH ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so SANFORD-FRITCH H S sits 70% below that benchmark.
SANFORD-FRITCH H S is one of 3 schools operated by SANFORD-FRITCH ISD, a district that works with 745 students overall.
On the student-mix side, SANFORD-FRITCH H S reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%); the rest breaks down as 10% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.
Looking at school resources, On paper, SANFORD-FRITCH H S has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 40% of students at SANFORD-FRITCH H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Hutchinson County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, SANFORD-FRITCH H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.5%, the actual is 45.5%, a residual of -11.0 points.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Hutchinson County) reports that median household earnings sit near $67,228, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Hutchinson County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,718 students), SANFORD-FRITCH H S is one campus in the mix.
SANFORD-FRITCH J H is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around SANFORD-FRITCH H S. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SANFORD-FRITCH H S at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 43.7%.
Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.
Over the past 7-year window. SANFORD-FRITCH H S's enrollment has grew 12% since 2018, when it stood at 210 (now 236).
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