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WHITE OAK H S
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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 WHITE OAK H S
WHITE OAK H S is one of the low-enrollment 9-12 campuss in WHITE OAK, Texas, overseen by WHITE OAK ISD, with 406 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 49% leaner than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.
Within WHITE OAK ISD, which oversees 5 schools and 1,466 students, WHITE OAK H S is one campus in the system.
Demographically, WHITE OAK H S logs that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 58%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 36% of students at WHITE OAK H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Gregg County (around 68%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, WHITE OAK H S sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.2%; this one delivers 63.9%.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Gregg County put median household income runs about $66,550, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. WHITE OAK H S is one of 46 public schools in Gregg County (combined enrollment of about 20,498 students).
Nearest neighbor: WHITE OAK EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WHITE OAK H S. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WHITE OAK H S ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 57.8%.
WHITE OAK H S operates from a residential location.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 410 students in 2018 compared to 406 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 in 2025.
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