RIO VISTA H S
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 66 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 5 points since 2020.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 50% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 21 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About RIO VISTA H S
RIO VISTA H S, a tiny high school in RIO VISTA, Texas, overseen by RIO VISTA ISD, serves 296 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 63% smaller than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.
Within RIO VISTA ISD, which oversees 3 schools and 1,032 students, RIO VISTA H S is one campus in the system.
Demographically, RIO VISTA H S lists that 75% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting RIO VISTA H S tighter than the state norm the norm. About 55% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
After controlling for student poverty, RIO VISTA H S ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 49.8%; RIO VISTA H S posts 70.8%, +20.9 points above that line.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Johnson County indicate median household income runs about $84,859, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Johnson County's 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 39,004 students), RIO VISTA H S is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is RIO VISTA EL, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, RIO VISTA H S comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 39.3%.
Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 24%: 239 students in 2018 compared to 296 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 83% to 75% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 9.4:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.
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