BLUE RIDGE BRIARGATE EL

Located at 6241 MCHARD RD, in HOUSTON, Texas, BLUE RIDGE BRIARGATE EL is a moderately sized primary school that instructs 567 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by FORT BEND ISD.

FORT BEND ISD comprises 83 schools with combined enrollment of 79,663 students; BLUE RIDGE BRIARGATE EL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BLUE RIDGE BRIARGATE EL lists that the largest single group is Black, at 67% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 26% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Fort Bend County as a whole is about 21% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, BLUE RIDGE BRIARGATE EL records 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.5:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 81% of students at BLUE RIDGE BRIARGATE EL qualify 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 above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, BLUE RIDGE BRIARGATE EL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 38.6%; this one comes in at 20.0%, -18.6 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, census data for Fort Bend County shows median household earnings sit near $114,041, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. BLUE RIDGE BRIARGATE EL is one of 217 public schools in Fort Bend County (combined enrollment of about 191,372 students).

CHRISTA MCAULIFFE MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BLUE RIDGE BRIARGATE EL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 29.1%.

BLUE RIDGE BRIARGATE EL operates from a metropolitan location.

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