ROBERTA WRIGHT RYLANDER EL

ROBERTA WRIGHT RYLANDER EL, a sizable elementary school in KATY, Texas, run under KATY ISD, hosts 1,034 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 99% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

KATY ISD comprises 78 schools with combined enrollment of 96,111 students; ROBERTA WRIGHT RYLANDER EL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ROBERTA WRIGHT RYLANDER EL logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (37%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 26% White, 20% Asian, 10% Black, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, ROBERTA WRIGHT RYLANDER EL has 81 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 44% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, ROBERTA WRIGHT RYLANDER EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.7%, the actual is 66.9%, a residual of +12.2 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Fort Bend County shows the typical household earns roughly $114,041 per year, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Fort Bend County runs 217 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,372 students), of which ROBERTA WRIGHT RYLANDER EL is one.

The closest other public school is CINCO RANCH H S, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ROBERTA WRIGHT RYLANDER EL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 78.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 8%: 1,125 students in 2018 compared to 1,034 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 22% to 37% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.

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