WILLIAM B TRAVIS H S

WILLIAM B TRAVIS H S is a large senior high in RICHMOND, Texas, operated by FORT BEND ISD. The school instructs 3,114 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 291% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.

FORT BEND ISD runs 83 schools in total, collectively educating 79,663 students. WILLIAM B TRAVIS H S is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, WILLIAM B TRAVIS H S records that the most-represented group is Black (29%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 29% Asian, 19% Hispanic, 18% White, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 166 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting WILLIAM B TRAVIS H S higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 38% of students at WILLIAM B TRAVIS H S qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WILLIAM B TRAVIS H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.4%, the actual is 68.4%, a residual of +11.0 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Fort Bend County put the typical household earns roughly $114,041 per year, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Fort Bend County's 217 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,372 students), WILLIAM B TRAVIS H S is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: JAMES C NEILL EL, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WILLIAM B TRAVIS H S. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WILLIAM B TRAVIS H S at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 59.9%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. WILLIAM B TRAVIS H S's enrollment has expanded 19% since 2018, when it stood at 2,618 (now 3,114). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 25% to 18% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 today.

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