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RANCHVIEW H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 36 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 27 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 25 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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%.
7-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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