Harry Wright Jh, Richmond TX - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Harry Wright Jh

Harry Wright Junior High is a regular public school serving grades six through eight in Richmond, part of Lamar Consolidated ISD in Fort Bend County. The school enrolls a student body of substantial size across three grades, with a diverse composition: roughly a third of students identify as Black, a substantial plurality as Hispanic, and smaller shares as Asian, white, and other races. More than half of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a community with mixed economic circumstances.

On the most recent state assessments, the school shows uneven academic performance across subjects and grades. In sixth-grade English/language arts, students demonstrate relative strength, with a substantial majority meeting or exceeding proficiency; math at that grade also shows moderate performance. The school faces a notable challenge in seventh-grade math, where proficiency drops sharply. Eighth grade shows recovery in both subjects: language arts proficiency reaches above the sixth-grade level, and math improves somewhat from seventh grade, though it remains below sixth-grade performance. Across the eighth-grade tests, science proficiency sits at the midpoint, while social studies represents the weakest area. Overall, the school's proficiency index across all tested subjects and grades falls below the midpoint relative to other districts in Fort Bend County, indicating academic performance that lags the county median.

The pattern of seventh-grade math difficulty merits attention. A parent may want to look into this further with the school, whether through asking about grade-level supports, curriculum choices, or transitions specific to the seventh-grade experience that might explain the dip.

Richmond itself is the Fort Bend County seat, a historic small town on the Brazos River centered around a downtown of early-1900s architecture along Morton Street, now mixed with rapid suburban growth in surrounding areas. The city lies roughly thirty miles southwest of downtown Houston, nestled between I-69 and the Grand Parkway. Major employer anchors include OakBend Medical Center, county government, and specialty manufacturing. The area is in the midst of significant residential expansion through master-planned communities like Harvest Green and Candela, with commercial growth concentrated near Highway 90 and the Grand Parkway.

Housing values in the Richmond area are moderate for the greater Houston region, with affordability ratios above the national benchmark; rental costs track slightly lower. The Fort Bend County Libraries system, anchored by the George Memorial Library in Richmond, serves the public; transit relies on Fort Bend Transit's demand-response and commuter park-and-ride service to Houston.

Lamar CISD is itself in a major growth phase. Voters approved a large bond in 2022 for eight new campuses and a districtwide career and technical education center, and in 2025 approved an even larger bond for additional schools and technology. The district holds one of the lowest property tax rates in the Houston area and has done so for three consecutive years. The new Career and Technical Education Center, expected to open in fall 2026, will offer pathways in health science, automotive, culinary, cosmetology, robotics, construction trades, digital communications, and logistics, available to all high school students districtwide. Ongoing rapid enrollment growth means families should expect periodic boundary rezoning; the district provides an address-lookup tool to check zoning.

Harry Wright sits in this context of a growing, relatively well-resourced district managing expansion while maintaining tax stability. The school's academic position suggests middle-range performance that warrants conversation with educators about instructional approach, especially given the seventh-grade math pattern.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 650%

School 50% · District 53% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▲ 16 pts above state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

Grade 716%

School 16% · District 21% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▼ 11 pts below state median · ▼ 29 pts below county median

Grade 847%

School 47% · District 56% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▲ 5 pts above state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 669%

School 69% · District 69%

▲ 17 pts above state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

Grade 749%

School 49% · District 62% · ▼ 13 pts below district

even with state median · ▼ 21 pts below county median

Grade 857%

School 57% · District 64% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▲ 2 pts above state median · ▼ 15 pts below county median

Science

Grade 852%

School 52% · District 54% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▲ 10 pts above state median · ▼ 8 pts below county median

Social studies

Grade 832%

School 32% · District 38% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▲ 8 pts above state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

This schoolLAMAR CISD, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 6Lower-income65%Higher-income75%10 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income41%Higher-income58%17 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income46%Higher-income68%22 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 6Lower-income46%Higher-income58%12 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income13%Higher-income21%8 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income41%Higher-income54%13 pp gap