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RYAN H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 32 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 18 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About RYAN H S
RYAN H S is a well-populated four-year high school in DENTON, Texas, part of DENTON ISD. The school serves 2,051 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 158% bigger than the state mean of about 796.
DENTON ISD runs 46 schools in total, collectively educating 33,329 students. RYAN H S is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, RYAN H S reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 46%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 28% White, 20% Black, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 21% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, RYAN H S logs 162 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 58% of students at RYAN H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Denton County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, RYAN H S tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 45.0%.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Denton County indicate median household earnings sit near $111,498, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Denton County's 267 public schools (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students), RYAN H S is one campus in the mix.
ALICE MOORE ALEXANDER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.
The school occupies an inner-city site.
Five-year trend. RYAN H S's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 2,048 (now 2,051). The White share of enrollment edged down from 38% to 28% over that span.
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