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AZLE J H SOUTH
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 46 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 21 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 24 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About AZLE J H SOUTH
AZLE J H SOUTH is a mid-sized middle school in AZLE, Texas, part of AZLE ISD. The school instructs 592 students in grades 7 through 8.
AZLE ISD comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 7,304 students; AZLE J H SOUTH is among them.
On the student-mix side, AZLE J H SOUTH shows that 62% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 32% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 48% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Around 39% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is south of typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), AZLE J H SOUTH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.0%, the actual is 49.9%, a residual of -7.1 points.
In the surrounding community, Tarrant County reports that the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Tarrant County runs 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), of which AZLE J H SOUTH is one.
AZLE EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, AZLE J H SOUTH comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 49.8%.
AZLE J H SOUTH operates from a residential location.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at AZLE J H SOUTH has ticked up 10%, going from 536 students in 2018 to 592 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 72% to 62%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.
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