SAM RAYBURN H S

SAM RAYBURN H S is a roomy secondary school in PASADENA, Texas, operated by PASADENA ISD. The school educates 2,627 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 230% above the state mean of about 796.

PASADENA ISD comprises 67 schools with combined enrollment of 46,491 students; SAM RAYBURN H S is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SAM RAYBURN H S shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (91%). Other groups include 4% White, 4% Black. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 167 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.7:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 86% of students at SAM RAYBURN H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, SAM RAYBURN H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.3%, the actual is 49.6%, a residual of +13.4 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Harris County put median household earnings sit near $74,983, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which SAM RAYBURN H S is one.

Nearest neighbor: MAE SMYTHE EL, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SAM RAYBURN H S comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 40.6%.

SAM RAYBURN H S operates from a high-density location.

Five-year trend. SAM RAYBURN H S's enrollment has contracted 13% since 2018, when it stood at 3,028 (now 2,627). The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the SAM RAYBURN H S community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.