RHODES IS

Set in FORNEY, Texas, RHODES IS is a moderately sized 6-8 campus, operated by FORNEY ISD. It works with 746 students across grades 5 through 6.

RHODES IS is one of 24 schools operated by FORNEY ISD, a district that works with 18,565 students overall.

Demographically, RHODES IS lists that 58% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school logs 21% Hispanic, 12% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 19% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.1:1. The state averages about 14.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, RHODES IS is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 47.5%; RHODES IS posts 33.4%, -14.2 points below that line.

In the broader community, census data for Kaufman County shows the typical household earns roughly $89,485 per year, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Kaufman County runs 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,319 students), of which RHODES IS is one.

The closest other public school is JACKSON MIDDLE, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around RHODES IS. On composite proficiency, RHODES IS comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 45.9%.

RHODES IS operates from an outlying location.

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