TRENTON 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 65 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 36 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 10 points since 2020.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 TRENTON H S
Located at 2289 FM 815, in TRENTON, Texas, TRENTON H S is a minimally staffed high school that teaches 213 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by TRENTON ISD. That puts it 73% smaller than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.
Within TRENTON ISD, which oversees 3 schools and 712 students, TRENTON H S is one campus in the system.
Looking at the student body, TRENTON H S lists that 62% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 33% Hispanic, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 81% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 39% of students at TRENTON H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Fannin County's rate of about 57%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, TRENTON H S sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.6%; this one delivers 60.8%.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Fannin County indicate median household income runs about $72,295, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Fannin County runs 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,573 students), of which TRENTON H S is one.
Nearest neighbor: TRENTON MIDDLE, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts TRENTON H S at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 46.9%.
Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 29%: 165 students in 2018 compared to 213 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 18% to 33% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 10.2:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.
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