Schools · Sterling

Sterling, TX schools

Kids attend Sterling City School.

Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.

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Sterling’s School Grade: B

The public schools Sterling’s kids attend outperform 63% of Texas’s districts on state tests. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.

BTest scores

Texas school districts we grade (1,185)Better than 63%

Lower resultsHigher results

Texas towns with similar household incomes (741)Better than 66%

Good confidence. Built on 180 tested students; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.

How the School Grade works

Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Texas’s state tests, each against the state average. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2019.
The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each.
Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Texas only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Texas with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.

School path

Where Sterling kids go to school

Grades PK–12

B+Sterling City School 335 students · Sterling City Sterling City Independent School District

Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.

Test scores · 2020–21

State test results

Math (grades PK–12, Sterling City Independent)42%

State average 36.5%

Graduation · class of 2019

90% graduate on time

Graduation rate

90%

TX: 90.2%

Graduating class

students

The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.

Districts

The district serving Sterling

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Sterling City Independent School DistrictGrades PK–12 · 6 schools · 355 students

$17,619 per studentTX $12,815B

Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.

Within reach

Colleges near Sterling

There’s no college within 30 miles of Sterling. The closest is Howard College in Big Spring, TX, 39.4 miles away.

Howard CollegeCommunity college · Public · Big Spring39.4 mi2,962 students

Southwest College for the DeafCommunity college · Public · Big Spring40.4 mi47 students

Angelo State UniversityUniversity or college · Public · San Angelo41.2 mi9,174 students

Straight-line distance from the center of Sterling. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus. Colleges marked › have their own page; the others are too small or don’t report enough to the Department of Education for one.

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