Springlake-earth H S, Earth TX - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Springlake-earth H S

Springlake-Earth High School is a small, grades 8–12 campus serving a rural farming community in Lamb County on the Texas High Plains. The school teaches roughly a hundred students across five grades in a region where the economy rests on cotton and grain agriculture centered on the Ogallala Aquifer. Most of the school's student body comes from low-income households, and a substantial majority are Hispanic. The peer group is small and locally rooted.

On state testing, Springlake-Earth reports mixed results. In the elementary and middle grades tested on STAAR, English and math proficiency fall below the county median. Grade 4 English is the brightest spot, but by grade 5 proficiency drops sharply in both subjects, particularly in science. Grade 6 and 7 math and English sit in the low-to-middle range, and grade 8 rebounds somewhat. Science proficiency in grade 5 is quite low; grade 8 science and social studies each show roughly half the students meeting or exceeding state proficiency. The school's overall proficiency index places it in the top quartile among Lamb County districts, a positioning that reflects both the school's own performance and the broader proficiency context of the rural West Texas region.

Trend data is limited to a single year, so readers cannot yet see whether these results represent a trajectory or a snapshot.

A key structural fact for families is the district's four-day school week, running Tuesday through Friday. The district adopted this in 2022 as a recruitment tool to appeal to teachers, and it continues into the 2025–2026 calendar. Mondays are designated as non-instructional, though mandatory for staff; the daily schedule has been lengthened to meet Texas's instructional-minute requirements. Families considering the school should verify how this schedule aligns with their own childcare and work arrangements, especially on Mondays.

The town of Earth itself is a very small, quiet, aging place in steep long-term population decline. It sits on the flat High Plains, organized around a single stoplight at the intersection of Highway 70 and Farm Road 302. Most residents own their homes, but the local job market is narrow and the population has thinned over decades. The school sits on a rural campus at the edge of town rather than in any commercial downtown. Housing values here are well below both the state and national benchmarks. There is no public transit.

Graduation rate data was not available. Complete special-population enrollment figures (special education and English learner counts) were not reported. Parents seeking more detail on these topics should contact the district directly.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

>=80%Cohort of 18 students · Class of 2021

The federal source publishes a banded range instead of an exact rate when the graduating cohort is small enough that an exact number could risk identifying individual students.

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

1,779 schools plotted. 59 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Math

Grade 347%

School 47% · District 47%

▲ 7 pts above state median

Grade 456%

School 56% · District 56%

▲ 15 pts above state median

Grade 518%

School 18% · District 18%

▼ 23 pts below state median

Grade 633%

School 33% · District 33%

▼ 1 pts below state median

Grade 747%

School 47% · District 47%

▲ 20 pts above state median

Grade 856%

School 56% · District 56%

▲ 14 pts above state median

English language arts

Grade 353%

School 53% · District 53%

▲ 7 pts above state median

Grade 471%

School 71% · District 71%

▲ 22 pts above state median

Grade 527%

School 27% · District 27%

▼ 27 pts below state median

Grade 640%

School 40% · District 40%

▼ 12 pts below state median

Grade 747%

School 47% · District 47%

▼ 2 pts below state median

Grade 856%

School 56% · District 56%

▲ 1 pts above state median

Science

Grade 59%

School 9% · District 9%

▼ 14 pts below state median

Grade 844%

School 44% · District 44%

▲ 2 pts above state median

Social studies

Grade 822%

School 22% · District 22%

▼ 2 pts below state median

This schoolSPRINGLAKE-EARTH ISD, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 7Lower-income20%Higher-income78%58 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 7Lower-income30%Higher-income67%37 pp gap