# MORTON RANCH J H

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `482517009613`
- **School name**: MORTON RANCH J H
- **Location**: KATY, TX 77449
- **Address**: 2498 N MASON RD
- **District**: KATY ISD (LEAID `4825170`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 29.80898, -95.74426
- **Phone**: (281)237-7400

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,205
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 96
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 12.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 76.1%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: TEA A-F
- **Year**: 2022
- **Overall rating**: B
- **Indicators**:
  - student_achievement: C
  - school_progress: B
  - academic_growth: C
  - relative_performance: B
  - closing_gaps: C
  - overall: B
  - overall_score: 84

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **Academic Growth (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 100.0% proficient — 72 tested
- **Algebra I (EOC) % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade HS): 94.4% proficient, 66.7% advanced — 72 tested
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 76.0% proficient — 2,949 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 45.2% proficient, 15.6% advanced — 2,949 tested
- **Closing Gaps**: 57.0% proficient
- **Closing Gaps (TEA A-F)**: 57.0% proficient
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 74.7% proficient — 1,095 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 84.4% proficient — 409 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 60.2% proficient — 274 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 69.4% proficient — 340 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 43.6% proficient, 15.9% advanced — 1,095 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 56.5% proficient, 22.0% advanced — 409 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 28.1% proficient, 2.2% advanced — 274 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 29.7% proficient, 8.8% advanced — 340 tested
- **Overall (TEA A-F)**: 70.0% proficient
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 77.4% proficient — 1,099 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 8): 83.1% proficient — 378 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 7): 77.0% proficient — 379 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 6): 71.6% proficient — 342 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 18.0% (215 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.4% (16 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.4% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 6.2% (74 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 74
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.5%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 56.9%
- **Black/African American**: 4.3%
- **Asian**: 19.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 16.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 3.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 78.1%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 17.1% — 203 students
- **English Learners**: 21.4% — 253 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 78 students
- **Autism**: 27 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 20 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 11 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 10 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 10 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 3 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $9,882
- **Federal share**: $667
- **State + local share**: $9,215
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,190
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $13,685,701
- **Federal share**: 10.0%
- **State share**: 35.6%
- **Local share**: 54.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,241,094

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $83,651
- **Poverty rate**: 10.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 33.7%
- **Unemployment**: 9.1%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,447
- **Foreign-born residents**: 33.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 17.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 12.4 miles (CRYSTAL CHEMICAL CO)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 14
- **Nearest brownfield**: 11.63 miles (7777 DAIRY ASHFORD ST)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF KATY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-06-24

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 9.2435 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 8.8 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **MORTON RANCH EL** — 0.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.35%)
- **FRANZ EL** — 0.3 mi away, 0.64% (this school: 1.35%)
- **LORAINE T GOLBOW EL** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.35%)
- **T H MCDONALD J H** — 1.2 mi away, 0.5% (this school: 1.35%)
- **SUNDOWN EL** — 1.2 mi away, 1.33% (this school: 1.35%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/morton-ranch-j-h-katy
- **Performance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/morton-ranch-j-h-katy/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/morton-ranch-j-h-katy/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/morton-ranch-j-h-katy/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/morton-ranch-j-h-katy/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/morton-ranch-j-h-katy/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/morton-ranch-j-h-katy/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/morton-ranch-j-h-katy/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/morton-ranch-j-h-katy/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.tx.whatschool.ai/en/tx/school/morton-ranch-j-h-katy/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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