ZAVALLA H S

Set in ZAVALLA, Texas, ZAVALLA H S is a micro-enrollment secondary school, operated by ZAVALLA ISD. It instructs 141 students across grades 6 through 12. That puts it 82% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.

ZAVALLA ISD comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 303 students; ZAVALLA H S is among them.

On the student-mix side, ZAVALLA H S records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). Beyond that, the school lists 3% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting ZAVALLA H S tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 70% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ZAVALLA H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.5%, the actual is 39.3%, a residual of -4.2 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Angelina County shows median household income runs about $60,960, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. ZAVALLA H S is one of 43 public schools in Angelina County (combined enrollment of about 15,649 students).

Nearest neighbor: ZAVALLA EL, around 0.1 miles off. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ZAVALLA H S ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 43.4%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. ZAVALLA H S's enrollment has edged down 26% since 2018, when it stood at 190 (now 141).

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