RIO HONDO H S

RIO HONDO H S, a tight-knit 9-12 campus in RIO HONDO, Texas, run under RIO HONDO ISD, caters to 475 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so RIO HONDO H S sits 40% below that benchmark.

RIO HONDO H S is one of 4 schools operated by RIO HONDO ISD, a district that hosts 1,437 students overall.

In terms of who attends, RIO HONDO H S records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (97%). Other groups include 3% White.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 87% of students at RIO HONDO H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, RIO HONDO H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.9%, the actual is 43.0%, a residual of +7.1 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Cameron County indicate the typical household earns roughly $52,601 per year, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 21%. In all, Cameron County runs 187 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,392 students), of which RIO HONDO H S is one.

RIO HONDO MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), RIO HONDO H S ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 48.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RIO HONDO H S has shrank 23%, going from 615 students in 2018 to 475 in 2025.

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