RICHARDSON H S

RICHARDSON H S is a senior high of sizable scale in RICHARDSON, Texas, overseen by RICHARDSON ISD, caters to 2,669 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 235% bigger than the state mean of about 796.

RICHARDSON ISD runs 55 schools in total, collectively educating 38,526 students. RICHARDSON H S is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, RICHARDSON H S records that 43% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 27% White, 19% Black, 6% Asian, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, RICHARDSON H S logs 193 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 45% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Dallas County (around 77%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, RICHARDSON H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.4%, the actual is 61.3%, a residual of +6.8 points.

In the area at large, census data for Dallas County shows the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. RICHARDSON H S is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).

Nearest neighbor: RICHARDSON WEST TECHNOLOGY AND ARTS MAGNET, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around RICHARDSON H S. On composite proficiency, RICHARDSON H S comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 52.1%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RICHARDSON H S has shrank 4%, going from 2,770 students in 2018 to 2,669 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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