SAM RAYBURN

As a mid-sized 6-8 campus in BRYAN, Texas, SAM RAYBURN educates 728 students from grades 5 through 6, operated by BRYAN ISD.

Within BRYAN ISD, which oversees 26 schools and 16,044 students, SAM RAYBURN is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, SAM RAYBURN shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 31% White, 18% Black, 5% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, SAM RAYBURN has 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.8:1. The state averages about 14.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 68% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Brazos County's rate of about 60%.

With demographic context factored in, SAM RAYBURN performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.4%, the actual is 41.9%, a residual of -2.5 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Brazos County put the typical household earns roughly $58,553 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Brazos County's 53 public schools (combined enrollment of about 32,430 students), SAM RAYBURN is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is MITCHELL EL, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SAM RAYBURN comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. SAM RAYBURN's enrollment has decreased 39% since 2018, when it stood at 1,186 (now 728). Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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