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WIMBERLEY 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 70 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 50 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 36 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 50 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% 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 WIMBERLEY H S
Set in WIMBERLEY, Texas, WIMBERLEY H S is a mid-tier high school, part of WIMBERLEY ISD. It enrolls 820 students across grades 9 through 12.
WIMBERLEY ISD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,661 students; WIMBERLEY H S is among them.
On the student-mix side, WIMBERLEY H S records that the largest single group is White, at 68% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 27% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.
On the resource side, The school currently runs with 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 19% of students at WIMBERLEY H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Hays County (around 46%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
With demographic context factored in, WIMBERLEY H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.8%, the actual is 68.9%, a residual of +3.1 points.
In the broader community, census data for Hays County shows the typical household earns roughly $89,097 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. WIMBERLEY H S is one of 63 public schools in Hays County (combined enrollment of about 46,946 students).
DANFORTH J H is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around WIMBERLEY H S. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WIMBERLEY H S at 1st of 5; the average score across the group is 62.3%.
The school occupies a countryside site.
Over the past 7-year window. WIMBERLEY H S's enrollment has climbed 11% since 2018, when it stood at 739 (now 820). Hispanic enrollment moved from 22% to 27% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.
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