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Texas House Bill 588, commonly referred to as the "Top 10% Rule", is a Texas law passed in 1997. It was signed into law by then governor George W. Bush on May 20, 1997. The law guarantees Texas students who graduated in the top ten percent of their high school class automatic admission to all state-funded universities.
Out of 2,144 high schools in the state, 1,532 Texas schools made the rankings. The 1,085 districts in the state employ 117,850 full-time teachers.
KIPP Texas Public Schools (Connect, East End, Generations, Northeast, Sunnyside) Premier Charter School (Champions, Gallery, Hobby, Sharpstown) Pro-Vision Academy
Below is the grading system found to be most commonly used in United States public high schools, according to the 2009 High School Transcript Study. [2] This is the most used grading system; however, there are some schools that use an edited version of the college system, which means 89.5 or above becomes an A average, 79.5 becomes a B, and so on.
During 2022–2023, Poteet High School had an enrollment of 508 students and a student to teacher ratio of 13.15. [1] The school received an overall rating of "C" from the Texas Education Agency for the 2021–2022 school year. [2]
Large public schools are more likely to rank their students than small private schools. [1] Because many admissions officers were frustrated that many applications did not contain a rank, some colleges are using other information provided by high schools, in combination with a student's GPA to estimate a student's class rank.
In 2023, U.S. News & World Report ranked the school #32 among the nation's best high schools and #4 among high schools in Texas, with a score of 99.82 out of 100. [5] Niche's 2022-23 rankings placed LASA at #24 nationally, #12 among magnet schools, and #2 in the state of Texas. [16]
In the 2012 U.S. News & World Report rankings of the Best Schools in America, Richardson High School ranked number 711 out of 21,766 public high schools, putting it in the top 3.5% of all public high schools in the United States. RHS was also rated the 65th best in the state of Texas. [16]