KLEIN FOREST H S

KLEIN FOREST H S, an expansive four-year high school in KLEIN, Texas, part of KLEIN ISD, educates 3,418 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so KLEIN FOREST H S sits 329% bigger than that benchmark.

KLEIN FOREST H S is one of 50 schools operated by KLEIN ISD, a district that caters to 52,437 students overall.

Looking at the student body, KLEIN FOREST H S shows that 69% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 20% Black, 7% Asian, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, KLEIN FOREST H S has 238 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.3:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 80% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, KLEIN FOREST H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.9%, the actual is 42.1%, a residual of +3.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Harris County shows the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. KLEIN FOREST H S is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

Nearest neighbor: WUNDERLICH INT, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around KLEIN FOREST H S. On composite proficiency, KLEIN FOREST H S comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.3%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at KLEIN FOREST H S has decreased 8%, going from 3,708 students in 2018 to 3,418 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 61% to 69% over that span.

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