ROYSE CITY H S

ROYSE CITY H S is one of the high-enrollment four-year high schools in ROYSE CITY, Texas, run under ROYSE CITY ISD, with 2,834 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 256% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.

ROYSE CITY H S is one of 11 schools operated by ROYSE CITY ISD, a district that serves 10,034 students overall.

Demographically, ROYSE CITY H S logs that 39% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 37% Hispanic, 17% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 70% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 190 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 39% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Hunt County (around 61%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ROYSE CITY H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.8%, the actual is 55.1%, a residual of -1.6 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Hunt County indicate median household earnings sit near $71,938, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Hunt County runs 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,771 students), of which ROYSE CITY H S is one.

W R (BILL) FORT EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ROYSE CITY H S. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ROYSE CITY H S at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 44.7%.

ROYSE CITY H S operates from an outlying location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ROYSE CITY H S has increased 71%, going from 1,655 students in 2018 to 2,834 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 57% to 39% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

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