BLUE RIDGE H S
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 40 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 BLUE RIDGE H S
BLUE RIDGE H S is a four-year high school of very small scale in BLUE RIDGE, Texas, overseen by BLUE RIDGE ISD, works with 298 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so BLUE RIDGE H S sits 63% leaner than that benchmark.
BLUE RIDGE ISD runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,048 students. BLUE RIDGE H S is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, BLUE RIDGE H S lists that 59% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school records 36% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.
On the resource side, On paper, BLUE RIDGE H S has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.8:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 54% of students at BLUE RIDGE H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Collin County (around 30%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BLUE RIDGE H S sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.3%; this one delivers 52.1%.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Collin County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $121,600 per year, about 56% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. BLUE RIDGE H S is one of 338 public schools in Collin County (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students).
Nearest neighbor: BLUE RIDGE EL, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BLUE RIDGE H S comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 47.1%.
Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BLUE RIDGE H S has grew 28%, going from 233 students in 2018 to 298 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 72% to 59% over that span.
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