MORTON RANCH H S

Located at 21000 FRANZ RD, in KATY, Texas, MORTON RANCH H S is a high-enrollment high school that hosts 2,944 students (grades 9 through 12), run under KATY ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 270% larger than the state mean of about 796.

KATY ISD comprises 78 schools with combined enrollment of 96,111 students; MORTON RANCH H S is among them.

Demographically, MORTON RANCH H S records that 58% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder looks like 23% Black, 13% White, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, MORTON RANCH H S reports 212 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 70% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MORTON RANCH H S sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.5%; this one delivers 55.3%.

In the surrounding community, Harris County reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which MORTON RANCH H S is one.

Nearest neighbor: MORTON RANCH EL, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MORTON RANCH H S. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MORTON RANCH H S ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 43.2%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MORTON RANCH H S has shrank 4%, going from 3,081 students in 2018 to 2,944 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 18% to 13%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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