SWEENY H S

SWEENY H S is one of the compact senior highs in SWEENY, Texas, run under SWEENY ISD, with 597 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 25% below the state mean of about 796.

Across the 3 schools in SWEENY ISD (1,919 students total), SWEENY H S accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, SWEENY H S logs that the largest single group is White, at 57% of enrollment. Other groups include 27% Hispanic, 11% Black, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 48% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.0:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 46% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, SWEENY H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.8%, the actual is 55.6%, a residual of +1.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Brazoria County shows the typical household earns roughly $97,993 per year, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Brazoria County runs 115 public schools (combined enrollment of about 75,767 students), of which SWEENY H S is one.

Nearest neighbor: SWEENY J H, around 0.3 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SWEENY H S ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 41.8%.

SWEENY H S operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 593 students in 2018 compared to 597 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 22% to 27%.

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