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SCHULENBURG SECONDARY
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 34 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 43 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 28 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 SCHULENBURG SECONDARY
As a modestly sized four-year high school in SCHULENBURG, Texas, SCHULENBURG SECONDARY works with 411 students from grades 6 through 12, one of the schools within SCHULENBURG ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so SCHULENBURG SECONDARY sits 48% smaller than that benchmark.
SCHULENBURG ISD runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 684 students. SCHULENBURG SECONDARY is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, SCHULENBURG SECONDARY reports that 45% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 37% Hispanic, 13% Black, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 76%.
Looking at school resources, SCHULENBURG SECONDARY logs 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.3:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 69% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Fayette County's rate of about 53%.
With demographic context factored in, SCHULENBURG SECONDARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.8%, the actual is 42.8%, a residual of -1.0 points.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Fayette County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $75,854 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Fayette County runs 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,755 students), of which SCHULENBURG SECONDARY is one.
Nearest neighbor: SCHULENBURG EL, around 0.1 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SCHULENBURG SECONDARY ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 56.7%.
The school occupies a small-town site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SCHULENBURG SECONDARY has grew 4%, going from 396 students in 2018 to 411 in 2025.
Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for SCHULENBURG SECONDARY typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Fayette County at a glance
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