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MORTON RANCH J H
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Test scores
STAAR 2024-25 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 37 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 53 and 43. Reading scores are up about 5 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About MORTON RANCH J H
MORTON RANCH J H, a high-enrollment intermediate school in KATY, Texas, run under KATY ISD, caters to 1,205 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so MORTON RANCH J H sits 87% bigger than that benchmark.
KATY ISD runs 78 schools in total, collectively educating 96,111 students. MORTON RANCH J H is one of those campuses.
Demographically, MORTON RANCH J H logs that 61% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest comes out to 21% Black, 9% White, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 97 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 76% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MORTON RANCH J H performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.2%, the actual is 41.5%, a residual of +0.3 points.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate median household earnings sit near $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which MORTON RANCH J H is one.
The closest other public school is MORTON RANCH EL, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MORTON RANCH J H at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 44.7%.
The campus sits in a residential setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MORTON RANCH J H has changed only slightly, going from 1,215 students in 2018 to 1,205 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 19% to 9% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.
On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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