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 40.6%, the actual is 43.9%, a residual of +3.2 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.