Summary:
The Crane Independent School District (Isd) is served by a single high school, Crane High School, which educates 347 students in grades 9 through 12 in a small, rural Texas community.
Crane High School excels at keeping students on track to graduate. It boasts a perfect 0.0% dropout rate and a very high 95.2% graduation rate for the 2023-2024 school year, a significant achievement given that over two-thirds of its students come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. The school also benefits from a favorable student-teacher ratio of 13.3:1, which allows for more personalized attention. However, the school's state ranking has been declining, dropping from the 39th percentile (2 stars) in 2023-2024 to the 26th percentile (1 star) in 2025-2026.
The most notable finding is a clear disconnect between the school's strong completion rates and its academic performance. In the 2025-2026 school year, Crane High School scored below the Texas state average in all five core subjects tested: Algebra I, Biology, English I, English II, and U.S. History. The most significant weakness is in English, where only 35% of students were proficient in English I Reading—a gap of over 20 percentage points below the state average. While the school showed a brief strength in Algebra I in 2024-2025, it did not sustain that performance. In short, the school is highly effective at getting students to graduation but faces a systemic challenge in ensuring they achieve grade-level academic mastery.
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