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B F TERRY H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 32 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 27 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About B F TERRY H S
Set in ROSENBERG, Texas, B F TERRY H S is a roomy 9-12 campus, one of the schools within LAMAR CISD. It caters to 1,512 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 90% bigger than the state mean of about 796.
Within LAMAR CISD, which oversees 49 schools and 46,786 students, B F TERRY H S is one campus in the system.
Demographically, B F TERRY H S logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 78%; the rest is composed of 10% Black, 8% White. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 85 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting B F TERRY H S higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 66% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Fort Bend County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, B F TERRY H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.1%, the actual is 50.5%, a residual of +5.4 points.
Around the school, census data for Fort Bend County shows median household income runs about $114,041, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Fort Bend County's 217 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,372 students), B F TERRY H S is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is GEORGE JH, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), B F TERRY H S ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 45.3%.
The campus sits in a suburban setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. B F TERRY H S's enrollment has edged down 27% since 2018, when it stood at 2,084 (now 1,512).
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