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GEORGE RANCH H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 57 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 20 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 22 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% 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 GEORGE RANCH H S
GEORGE RANCH H S operates as a sizable secondary school in RICHMOND, Texas, one of the schools within LAMAR CISD. Current enrollment sits at 2,337 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 194% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.
LAMAR CISD comprises 49 schools with combined enrollment of 46,786 students; GEORGE RANCH H S is among them.
On the student-mix side, GEORGE RANCH H S lists that 35% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 28% Hispanic, 20% Black, 13% Asian, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at school resources, GEORGE RANCH H S records 113 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 27% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Fort Bend County (around 42%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
With demographic context factored in, GEORGE RANCH H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.2%, the actual is 76.3%, a residual of +14.1 points.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Fort Bend County put median household income runs about $114,041, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Fort Bend County's 217 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,372 students), GEORGE RANCH H S is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: READING JH, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GEORGE RANCH H S. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), GEORGE RANCH H S ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 66.2%.
GEORGE RANCH H S operates from a commuter-belt location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 12%: 2,641 students in 2018 compared to 2,337 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 19.1:1 in 2018 to 20.7:1 today.
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Fort Bend County at a glance
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