Waco HS

Official improvement and transfer notices

Official state and federal designations can carry support, reporting requirements or a family transfer option that a single A–F rating does not explain.

Selected comparison percentages are the share of reporting schools in that group found on each dated list. They are neutral prevalence context; changing the comparison never changes this school's official status.

These are dated TEA statuses, fetched 24 August 2026; they are not added to or subtracted from this site's rating.

5 years of ratings

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2021-22 is shown under the refreshed methodology TEA adopted in 2023, so it is comparable with later years. Under the original scoring it was rated C with 77 that year.

Comparison lines follow the current rated cohort backward through time. The table gives the number in that fixed cohort that reported a score each year; it can be smaller than cohort membership.

Where the score comes from

Texas builds the overall rating from the better of Student Achievement and School Progress, weighted 70%, plus Closing the Gaps at 30%. School Progress is itself the better of Academic Growth and Relative Performance. The 60, 70, 80 and 90 rules mark the letter-grade thresholds.

• Student Achievement67 D−3.8 vs similar economic context · 2,227 reporting
• School Progress74 C−4.5 vs similar economic context · 2,221 reporting
• Closing the Gaps62 D−12.5 vs similar economic context · 2,207 reporting
• Academic Growth72 C−0.4 vs similar economic context · 2,178 reporting
• Relative Performance74 C−2.7 vs similar economic context · 2,221 reporting

• Waco HS
• Similar economic-disadvantage rate (2,390 in cohort)

Closest to moving up: School Progress, 6 points below B in that domain — the nearest of the measures that count toward the overall rating.

TEA does not add the domains up. The overall score is the better of Student Achievement and School Progress at 70%, plus Closing the Gaps at 30%. For this school that better measure is School Progress (74), so Student Achievement (67) is published above but does not enter the overall score at all — gaining points there changes nothing until it passes 74.

Student outcomes

STAAR performance

• Approaches grade level
• Meets grade level
• Masters grade level
• Tick: Similar economic-disadvantage rate (2,390 in cohort)

Percentage of tests at or above each level. Masters is a subset of Meets, which is a subset of Approaches. The selected-comparison tick on each bar marks the average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate — a comparison TEA does not publish.

Graduation

Four-Year

84.0%−7.0 pts vs similar economic context average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 292 rated schools reporting

Five-Year

80.5%−10.5 pts vs similar economic context average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 292 rated schools reporting

Six-Year

86.7%−3.8 pts vs similar economic context average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 293 rated schools reporting

Dropout Rate

4.9%+3.3 pts vs similar economic context average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 294 rated schools reporting

These measures use TEA's standard-accountability population. Each comparison average includes only schools in that population that report that specific measure; its reporting count is shown beside the average. It is an unweighted average of those reported school rates, not a pooled rate across every student in the group.

College, career and military readiness

Total credit for CCMR criteria

74.0%−9.7 pts vs similar economic context

Every row is a share of this school's graduates, and every row is a way of meeting CCMR — so on every row, a bigger share is better. Difference is this school minus the average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate, counted in percentage points: +5.0 would mean five more graduates in every hundred met that criterion here. The selected comparison is an unweighted average of the reported school percentages, not a pooled rate across all graduates in the group. Graduates may meet several criteria, so the rows do not add up to the total.

Counts in the comparison controls describe full cohort membership, not the denominator of every average. Each average uses only schools for which TEA reported that measure; metric-specific reporting counts are shown on the STAAR, graduation and CCMR rows and may vary.

After high school: the following fall

Where school graduates appeared in Texas public higher-education records the fall after graduation. This is a limited next-step measure, not an eventual college-going or completion rate.

Graduates in the report

321

Class of 2023–24

Enrolled in Texas public higher education

134

41.7% of graduates

Not found in Texas public higher-ed records

173

53.9% of graduates

Not trackable

14

Fall 2024

Most common named Texas public destinations

1. MCLENNAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE (003590)86
2. TEXAS STATE T. C. in WACO (003634)10
3. U. OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN (003658)5

Selected comparison counts are neutral cohort scale context. The percentages put differently sized graduating classes on the same basis, but still cover only the limited Texas-public system observed by this report.

Source: Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, high-school graduates enrolled in higher education, fetched 24 August 2026. The report covers graduates who enrolled in a Texas public college or university the following fall and includes only districts or campuses with more than 25 graduates.

“Not found” does not mean a graduate did not continue their education. It can include private or out-of-state college, work, military service, enrollment after the fall term, or another path the Texas public system does not observe.

“Not trackable” is not an outcome. THECB uses it for graduates with a non-standard identifier that could not be matched to higher-education records.

Who this school serves

Placed after the results deliberately: this is context for reading them, not an explanation of them.

Students

1,704

Economically disadvantaged

86.6%−0.6 pts vs similar economic context

English learners

23.9%−12.5 pts vs similar economic context

Special education

14.4%−3.9 pts vs similar economic context

Attendance

87.1%−6.0 pts vs similar economic context

Chronically absent

45.3%+23.0 pts vs similar economic context

Student demographics

Waco HS

• African American 28.4%
• Hispanic 61%
• White 7.9%
• American Indian 0.2%
• Asian 0.2%
• Two or More Races 2.3%

Student counts behind the percentages

Context only. These counts are not rankings, comparisons, or judgments about school quality.

Students in this TEA accountability summary

1,703

Economically disadvantaged students

1,474

Emergent bilingual students

407

Special education students

245

Early college pathways

Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH)

47

TEA-published share: 2.8%

Campus mobility · 2024–25

Mobile students

495

Students in TEA mobility denominator

2,050

TEA-published mobility rate

24.1%

The mobility count and rate use TEA’s separate 2024–25 campus denominator shown above, not current enrollment. This site does not recalculate a missing rate.

The first figure is TEA’s student count for this accountability summary. It is a separate publication from the fall PEIMS enrollment shown above and can differ; this site does not substitute one for the other. Counts come from TEA’s 2025-26 accountability summary, fetched 29 August 2026. A reported zero is shown as 0. Small-number and complementary masks, unavailable values, and blank not-reported fields stay separate and are never estimated. TEA masking definitions.

Enrollment over time

TEA-reported student enrollment for each available school year. Enrollment growth or decline is not a measure of school quality.

TEA reported 1,704 students in 2025–26, a decrease of 181 (9.6%) from 2024–25.

Latest enrollment

1,704

2025–26

Change from 2024–25

−181

Decrease · −9.6%

Change since 2021–22

−260

Decrease · −13.2%

The selected comparison column is the average enrollment among reporting schools in that group. It changes with the comparison control; this school's own counts do not.

Source: TEA PEIMS Student Program and Special Populations Reports, fetched 24 August 2026. TEA reports these counts from its fall student snapshot; changes compare adjacent reported school years.

These counts show how enrollment changed, not why. Attendance-zone changes, school openings or closures, grade reconfigurations, transfers and population shifts can affect the total.

Discipline and removal from class

TEA’s annual student and action counts, kept separate and divided only by the matching full-year enrollment. These figures describe removals from instruction, not a simple safe-or-unsafe score.

Students in TEA’s all-discipline count

478

23.4% of cumulative year-end enrollment

Disciplinary actions

1,667

81.80 per 100 students

Cumulative year-end enrollment

2,038

2024–25

Selected comparisons use rates, not raw counts, so differently sized schools can be read on the same basis. Each average uses only group members for which TEA reported that rate; this school's own counts and rates remain fixed.

Students, actions and incidents are different units. One student can receive multiple actions. The categories overlap, so they must not be added together. Rates use TEA's matching cumulative year-end enrollment, not the October enrollment shown elsewhere on this page.

Source: TEA Discipline Reports, fetched 24 August 2026. Suppressed values stay unavailable rather than being estimated. Use 2020–21 cautiously because remote instruction during the pandemic changed students' exposure to in-person discipline. TEA consolidated its separate action-group reports into this product in 2024–25; this trend uses only the stable “All discipline” heading.

Spending per student

The campus and its parent district stay fixed while the selected same-sector txschools.net comparison changes with the page-wide control. TEA's own peer group and statewide reference remain visible as separately published, fixed TEA references.

• Waco HS
• Parent district: Waco ISD
• Texas average
• Selected comparison: Similar economic-disadvantage rate

For 2025, TEA reported $33,391 per student for this campus, $22,564 per student for its parent district, Waco ISD, $18,972 per student for the Texas average.

Not reported in this TEA campus finance record: TEA peer group.

The selected-comparison reporting count is year-specific and can vary across the table. Dollar amounts are shown as TEA published them and are not adjusted for inflation.

Teachers and actual class size

Average salary

$64,727−$3,021 vs similar economic context

Teachers

138+96.6 vs similar economic context

Students per staff member

12.3−2.1 vs similar economic context

Teaching experience

Waco HS

• Beginning 7.7%
• 1 to 5 years 26.7%
• 6 to 10 years 28.9%
• 11 to 20 years 26.7%
• 21 to 30 years 8.3%
• Over 30 years 1.6%

Average students in a class

These are TEA's actual class-size averages for the grade or subject shown, not the student-to-teacher ratio. TEA reported 5 of 12 categories for this campus; the categories are not combined into a made-up campus-wide average. Each selected comparison average uses only schools reporting that same grade or subject.

Source: TEA Texas Academic Performance Reports, fetched 24 August 2026.

Where this school ranks best

Out of 200 rankings computed across every published metric and every available comparison group, these are all the measures that meet this site’s distinctive-placement threshold. The list does not change when you change Compare against. Each measure appears once, using its strongest placement. Press Copy for a citable sentence.

These are selected high placements, not a summary. Every figure above this section is the full picture, including where this school ranks poorly. Each measure appears once here, using its strongest qualifying placement across all available comparison groups. Very large ties are left out because they do not distinguish this school; any tie that does appear is labeled. Every ranking this site publishes, including the ones no school would put in a press release.

Where this comes from

The Texas Education Agency publishes the underlying accountability reports and data downloads. Ratings, outcomes, demographics, staffing and finance on this page come from TEA data available through txschools.gov, fetched 15 August 2026. TEA’s Reports and Data Portal links the official bulk files. Enrollment history comes from TEA's PEIMS Student Program and Special Populations reports, fetched 24 August 2026. The student-count context comes from TEA’s bulk accountability summary, fetched 29 August 2026; TEA’s masking definitions explain withheld values. The dated notice, staffing, discipline, transfer, community and postsecondary sections cite their separate TEA, Census or THECB publication in place. Every archived source carries checksums so each number stays traceable to the bytes the public agency served.

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