TOM BEAN 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 68 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 37 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 18 points since 2020.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About TOM BEAN H S
TOM BEAN H S is an one-room-style secondary school in TOM BEAN, Texas, one of the schools within TOM BEAN ISD. The school works with 213 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 796 students per school, that is 73% smaller than typical.
TOM BEAN ISD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 741 students; TOM BEAN H S is among them.
Demographically, TOM BEAN H S lists that White students make up the majority at 79%. The remainder comes out to 16% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the income-and-resources front, TOM BEAN H S records 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting TOM BEAN H S tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 32% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Grayson County's rate of about 53%.
With demographic context factored in, TOM BEAN H S tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 59.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 58.6%.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Grayson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $72,182 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Grayson County's 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,915 students), TOM BEAN H S is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: TOM BEAN MIDDLE, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around TOM BEAN H S. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), TOM BEAN H S ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 54.2%.
TOM BEAN H S operates from a small-town location.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at TOM BEAN H S has held roughly steady, going from 209 students in 2018 to 213 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 7% to 16% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 in 2025.
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