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RANCHVIEW H S
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About RANCHVIEW H S
RANCHVIEW H S operates as a reasonably sized secondary school in IRVING, Texas, operated by CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD. Current enrollment sits at 899 students spanning grades 9 through 12.
CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD comprises 39 schools with combined enrollment of 24,165 students; RANCHVIEW H S is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, RANCHVIEW H S lists that the most-represented group is Black (36%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 28% Hispanic, 22% Asian, 8% White, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, RANCHVIEW H S has 69 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 50% of students at RANCHVIEW H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Dallas County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, RANCHVIEW H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.0%, the actual is 55.0%, a residual of +3.0 points.
In the broader community, Dallas County reports that median household income runs about $76,547, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. RANCHVIEW H S is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).
The closest other public school is LANDRY EL, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, RANCHVIEW H S comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 70.3%.
Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 878 students in 2018 compared to 899 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 21% to 28% across the same window.
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