BECKENDORFF J H

As a substantial middle school in KATY, Texas, BECKENDORFF J H enrolls 1,674 students from grades 6 through 8, operated by KATY ISD. That puts it 160% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

Within KATY ISD, which oversees 78 schools and 96,111 students, BECKENDORFF J H is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, BECKENDORFF J H shows that 38% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 28% White, 22% Hispanic, 6% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Fort Bend County as a whole is about 22% Asian, so the school skews meaningfully more Asian than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 96 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. An estimated 23% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Fort Bend County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, BECKENDORFF J H is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 64.0%; this one delivers 86.5%, a residual of +22.5 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Fort Bend County indicate the typical household earns roughly $114,041 per year, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Fort Bend County's 217 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,372 students), BECKENDORFF J H is one campus in the mix.

GRIFFIN EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BECKENDORFF J H. On composite proficiency, BECKENDORFF J H comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 78.4%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BECKENDORFF J H has declined 4%, going from 1,739 students in 2018 to 1,674 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 40% to 28%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 in 2025.

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