TEXHOMA EL
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 67 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 44 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 25 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 47% 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 27 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About TEXHOMA EL
TEXHOMA EL is an unified-grade school of micro-enrollment scale in TEXHOMA, Texas, part of TEXHOMA ISD, works with 142 students in grades pre-K through 12. That puts it 71% smaller than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 485 students.
TEXHOMA ISD is the operating authority for TEXHOMA EL, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.
For racial and ethnic makeup, TEXHOMA EL records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 42% White, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 47%.
Looking at school resources, TEXHOMA EL shows 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.7:1, putting TEXHOMA EL higher than the state norm the norm. Around 63% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
With demographic context factored in, TEXHOMA EL 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 46.5%; TEXHOMA EL posts 73.2%, +26.7 points above that line.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Sherman County shows the typical household earns roughly $61,250 per year, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Sherman County runs 4 public schools (combined enrollment of about 669 students), of which TEXHOMA EL is one.
Nearest neighbor: TEXHOMA ES, around 0.9 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), TEXHOMA EL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 39.5%.
The school occupies an outlying site.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 26%: 192 students in 2018 compared to 142 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.
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