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KLEIN FOREST H S

KLEIN · TX · KLEIN ISD · Public

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📚AP rigor: Top 3.7% nationally 📖24 AP courses

📋 At a glance

Programs & features
  • 📚 24 AP courses offered — Elite
  • ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
  • ✅ Gifted & talented program
  • 🔢 3 calculus classes · 70 physics · 44 chemistry
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: Top 3.7% of US high schools
  • 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 41% by test-taker volume

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

🎓 Where grads go

75.0% of graduates enrolled in any college the fall after graduation.
4-yr public TX college
44.0%
UT-Austin + Texas A&M
9.0%

Source: TEA/THECB college-enrollment figures. Full Texas Reach detail below.

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How KLEIN FOREST H S compares for families

Among the nation's most academically rigorous high schools.

  • StatewideAP rigor sits in the top 3.7% of US high schools with 24 AP courses.
  • LocallyTX students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+4 points).
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: VISTAS H S, PREMIER H S-HOUSTON (CHAMPIONS), TEXASWORKS - HOUSTON-CHAMPIONS and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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🎓 Academic rigor

AP + advanced-course offerings

Elite — exceptional AP + advanced course breadth

Top 3.7% of US high schools

50th 90th ↑ this school
Less rigorMore rigorMost rigor
AP courses offered
24
Math ✓ · Science ✓
Advanced math classes
45
3 calculus · 42 advanced
Lab science classes
114
70 physics · 44 chemistry
Other rigor signals
✅ Dual-enrollment program
✅ Gifted/talented program

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).

SAT / ACT participation

CRDC federal data · 2020-21

Bottom 41% by test-taker volume

50th 90th
SAT/ACT test-takers
46
11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test
Test-taking intensity
1.3
takers per 100 students in grades 9-12
Compared against
18,426
US high schools reporting SAT/ACT participation

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.

👩‍🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC

Teacher experience & reliability

% inexperienced teachers (1st-2nd yr)
14.8%
Typical mix. Watch the trend — high turnover can compound.
% chronic teacher absence (≥10 days/yr)
38.5%
Elevated. Teacher absence directly affects classroom continuity and student outcomes.

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.

🏛️ Federal Title I context

High-poverty school

Title I Schoolwide eligible

80.1%
FRPL rate — % of students who qualify for the federal Free or Reduced-Price Lunch program. This is the underlying federal income-eligibility signal Title I designations are computed from (ESEA Sec. 1113).
0% (no FRPL) 35% TA · 40% Schoolwide 100% (universal FRPL)

≥75% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. These schools qualify for the highest tier of federal Title I funding and typically receive extra wraparound services. Academic outcomes vary widely — check the state assessment + grad-rate tiles.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.

🤘 Texas Reach

Where this school's graduates land after high school.

What share of Klein Forest HS's 2022 graduating class enrolled in college the following fall — and how that splits across Texas higher education. Source-of-truth for college-going at the high-school level in Texas.

Any college
75%
enrolled in TX higher ed, fall after graduation
State sample median: 85%
4-yr public TX
44%
at a TX public university
State sample median: 53%
⭐ Flagship
9%
at UT Austin or the Texas A&M system
State sample median: 15%
Cohort: 720 graduates
Class of: 2022
State sample: 98 TX HSs with published data

Klein ISD.

Source: TEA TAPR 2022-23, Domain 4 CCMR + Higher Ed Enrollment. Headline rate is "enrolled in Texas higher ed the following fall." Initial dataset covers a curated set of high-profile TX high schools — full per-school ingest pending the THECB open-records data response.

⭐ Texas School Quality

How TEA grades this school: CCMR + A-F accountability.

Two cohort-level signals TEA publishes for every Texas public high school: the share of graduates ready for college, career, or military service (CCMR), and the state's official A-F accountability grade.

CCMR
69%
College, Career, or Military Ready
State sample median: 82%
TEA Grade
B
Class of 2023
Accountability score
80
out of 100
State sample median: 88
What counts as CCMR-ready? →

Under TEA TAPR Domain 4, a graduate counts as CCMR-ready if they meet any one of: a qualifying SAT/ACT score; a qualifying TSI assessment; AP/IB exam scores of 3+; dual-credit college courses with C or better; an associate's degree at HS graduation; an industry-based certification; an OnRamps course; military enlistment; or an aligned career-prep program. The metric rolls up "is this graduate prepared for what comes next?" into one comparable number.

Source: TEA TAPR 2022-23 — Domain 4 CCMR + A-F Accountability. CCMR cohort = HS Class of 2023. A-F grade per Texas Education Code §39.054. Initial dataset is high-profile Texas HSs only — full ingest follows the TEA TAPR downloadable-file processing.

Counselor capacity

Student : Counselor
219:1
Below the ASCA 250:1 recommendation — strong capacity for college planning, course selection, and student supports.
Counselor FTE
15.6
Full-time-equivalent school counselors on staff.
Teacher FTE
261
Full-time-equivalent classroom teachers.

Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.

Enrollment trend & projection

Grade 12 went from 754 in 2021 to 758 in 2024 — over 3 years.
+0.5%

Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).

If the recent trend holds…

At its recent rate of -0.3%/year, projecting from 2024's 3,418 students:

2025
3,407
2027
3,386
2029
3,365

≈ 53 fewer students by 2029 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.

An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.

Revenue at risk

At $11,926 per student in district revenue, the 53 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $632,078/year in funding at risk.

District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.

Nearby high schools — the local competition

The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.

SchoolTypeMilesHS enrollmentTrend
VISTAS H S
KLEIN
Public 0.4
PREMIER H S-HOUSTON (CHAMPIONS)
HOUSTON
Public · charter 2.4 109 +7.9%
TEXASWORKS - HOUSTON-CHAMPIONS
HOUSTON
Public · charter 2.4 12
MOMENTUM H S
HOUSTON
Public 2.5 176 -19.6%
The Banff School
Houston
Private 2.5 158 +24.4%
SST CHAMPIONS
HOUSTON
Public · charter 2.7 284 +323.9%
HARMONY SCHOOL OF ADVANCEMENT-HOUSTON
HOUSTON
Public · charter 2.8 752 +2.5%
CYPRESS CREEK H S
HOUSTON
Public 3.9 3,222 -1.4%

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