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JORDAN H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 91 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 77 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 18 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 17 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 87% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 67% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 21 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
About JORDAN H S
Located at 27500 FULSHEAR BEND DR, in KATY, Texas, JORDAN H S is a sizable senior high that teaches 3,330 students (grades 9 through 12), part of KATY ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so JORDAN H S sits 318% bigger than that benchmark.
KATY ISD runs 78 schools in total, collectively educating 96,111 students. JORDAN H S is one of those campuses.
On demographics, JORDAN H S reports that 33% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 29% Asian, 25% Hispanic, 10% Black, 3% multiracial. Compared to Fort Bend County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
In terms of school funding signals, JORDAN H S lists 192 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.3:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 17% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Fort Bend County's rate of about 42%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), JORDAN H S 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 66.6%; this one delivers 87.1%, a residual of +20.5 points.
In the surrounding community, census data for Fort Bend County shows the typical household earns roughly $114,041 per year, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Fort Bend County's 217 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,372 students), JORDAN H S is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: ADAMS J H, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JORDAN H S. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts JORDAN H S at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 74.5%.
The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.
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