RHEA INT

RHEA INT is one of the reasonably sized junior highs in FORNEY, Texas, run under FORNEY ISD, with 599 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 6.

FORNEY ISD comprises 24 schools with combined enrollment of 18,565 students; RHEA INT is among them.

On demographics, RHEA INT logs that the most-represented group is White (34%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 33% Black, 28% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 54% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, RHEA INT logs 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Kaufman County's rate of about 59%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, RHEA INT performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.9%, the actual is 52.4%, a residual of -6.5 points.

Around the school, census data for Kaufman County shows the typical household earns roughly $89,485 per year, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Kaufman County runs 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,319 students), of which RHEA INT is one.

Nearest neighbor: HENDERSON EL, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts RHEA INT at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 54.3%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 11%: 672 students in 2018 compared to 599 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share expanded from 9% to 33%. Class-load math has fell: from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

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