RICHARDS H S

As a close-knit combined-grade school in RICHARDS, Texas, RICHARDS H S works with 249 students from grades pre-K through 12, one of the schools within RICHARDS ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 485 students each, so RICHARDS H S sits 49% below that benchmark.

RICHARDS H S is a school of RICHARDS ISD, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On demographics, RICHARDS H S records that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder breaks down as 10% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 61%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 38% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Grimes County (around 63%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, RICHARDS H S sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 57.2%; actual is 37.4%, a gap of -19.8 points.

In the broader community, Grimes County reports that the typical household earns roughly $69,803 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Grimes County runs 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,974 students), of which RICHARDS H S is one.

Nearest neighbor: ANDERSON-SHIRO EL, around 9.7 miles off. On composite proficiency, RICHARDS H S comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 55.0%.

RICHARDS H S operates from a rural location.

Over the past 7-year window. RICHARDS H S's enrollment has climbed 196% since 2018, when it stood at 84 (now 249). The Black share of enrollment fell from 13% to 3% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 10.0:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

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