ALVARADO J H

ALVARADO J H operates as an average-sized middle school in ALVARADO, Texas, run under ALVARADO ISD. Current enrollment sits at 862 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 34% above the state mean of about 643.

Within ALVARADO ISD, which oversees 6 schools and 3,788 students, ALVARADO J H is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, ALVARADO J H logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 41% White, 5% Black, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, ALVARADO J H reports 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Roughly 68% of students at ALVARADO J H qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Johnson County's rate of about 51%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ALVARADO J H tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.0%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Johnson County indicate median household income runs about $84,859, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Johnson County's 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 39,004 students), ALVARADO J H is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is ALVARADO EL-NORTH, roughly 0.8 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ALVARADO J H ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 35.8%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 40%: 614 students in 2018 compared to 862 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 34% to 52% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 today.

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