WINONA H S
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Test scores
STAAR 2024-25 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 24 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 53 and 43. Reading scores are up about 32 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 9 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 38% 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 WINONA H S
Located at 611 WILDCAT DR, in WINONA, Texas, WINONA H S is a compact high school that teaches 319 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by WINONA ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so WINONA H S sits 60% below that benchmark.
WINONA ISD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,166 students; WINONA H S is among them.
In terms of who attends, WINONA H S logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 39%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 35% White, 21% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Smith County as a whole is about 21% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Smith County's rate of about 64%.
With demographic context factored in, WINONA H S sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 37.8%; this one delivers 48.3%.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Smith County indicate median household income runs about $74,192, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Smith County's 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 37,385 students), WINONA H S is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: WINONA MIDDLE, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WINONA H S ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 40.9%.
The campus sits in a rural setting.
Over the past 7-year window. WINONA H S's enrollment has grew 3% since 2018, when it stood at 309 (now 319). The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 28% to 39% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 9.0:1 in 2025.
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