Fairview Accelerated

Fairview Accelerated is a public high school serving grades 9-12 in San Angelo, Texas, as part of the Grape Creek Independent School District. The school has seen significant changes in its racial composition, with the student body shifting from 100% White in 2020-2021 to 75% White and 25% Hispanic in the current 2022-2023 school year.

Fairview Accelerated has made notable improvements in recent years, moving from a statewide ranking of 1707 out of 1857 Texas high schools in 2018-2019 to 774 out of 1961 in 2022-2023. The school has also seen a dramatic decrease in dropout rates, from 25.0% in 2017-2018 to 0.0% in the current 2021-2022 school year. However, the school has struggled with low graduation rates, with a 0.0% four-year graduation rate in 2018-2019 and a 12.5% rate in 2017-2018.

Compared to nearby high schools, Fairview Accelerated's performance is mixed. While it outperforms the lower-ranked Lake View High School and Premier H.S. - San Angelo on some metrics, it lags behind the higher-performing Grape Creek High School, Christoval High School, and Wall High School in areas such as test scores and graduation rates. The school's STAAR EOC/English II Reading proficiency rate of 60% in the 2022-2023 school year was higher than the state average of 56%, but lower than the Grape Creek ISD average of 64%.