BERKNER H S

BERKNER H S, a high-enrollment secondary school in RICHARDSON, Texas, part of RICHARDSON ISD, serves 2,350 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 195% bigger than the state mean of about 796.

Across the 55 schools in RICHARDSON ISD (38,526 students total), BERKNER H S accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, BERKNER H S shows that 38% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 29% Black, 15% White, 15% Asian, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school employs 168 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.0:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 55% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Dallas County's rate of about 77%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BERKNER H S tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.0%.

In the broader community, Dallas County reports that median household earnings sit near $76,547, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), BERKNER H S is one campus in the mix.

SPRINGRIDGE EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BERKNER H S. On composite proficiency, BERKNER H S comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 46.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 11%: 2,642 students in 2018 compared to 2,350 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 19% to 15% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.

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