WELLINGTON 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 76 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 44 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 56 points since 2020.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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 WELLINGTON H S
WELLINGTON H S, a tiny senior high in WELLINGTON, Texas, overseen by WELLINGTON ISD, works with 168 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 79% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.
WELLINGTON ISD runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 534 students. WELLINGTON H S is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, WELLINGTON H S shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 42% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 33% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, The school reports having 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.7:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 57% of students at WELLINGTON H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
After controlling for student poverty, WELLINGTON H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.2%, the actual is 63.4%, a residual of +14.2 points.
Across the wider county, Collingsworth County reports that median household earnings sit near $61,280, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 21%. WELLINGTON H S is one of 3 public schools in Collingsworth County (combined enrollment of about 534 students).
Nearest neighbor: WELLINGTON J H, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around WELLINGTON H S. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WELLINGTON H S at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 45.1%.
WELLINGTON H S operates from a small-town location.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WELLINGTON H S has edged up 11%, going from 152 students in 2018 to 168 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 43% to 54% over that span.
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