BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE BIOTECH ACADEMY AT RUSK

BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE BIOTECH ACADEMY AT RUSK is one of the compact junior highs in HOUSTON, Texas, run under HOUSTON ISD, with 325 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 49% below the state mean of about 643.

HOUSTON ISD comprises 273 schools with combined enrollment of 176,727 students; BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE BIOTECH ACADEMY AT RUSK is among them.

On demographics, BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE BIOTECH ACADEMY AT RUSK logs that nearly all students (88%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 8% Black. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 75% of students at BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE BIOTECH ACADEMY AT RUSK qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE BIOTECH ACADEMY AT RUSK performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.0%, the actual is 44.2%, a residual of +3.3 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate median household earnings sit near $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE BIOTECH ACADEMY AT RUSK is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

Nearest neighbor: EAST EARLY COLLEGE H S, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE BIOTECH ACADEMY AT RUSK comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 52.1%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE BIOTECH ACADEMY AT RUSK has ticked down 16%, going from 388 students in 2018 to 325 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share declined from 16% to 8%.

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