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BARBARA JORDAN INT
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 44 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 10 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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 BARBARA JORDAN INT
BARBARA JORDAN INT is a moderately sized junior high in CIBOLO, Texas, overseen by SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD. The school teaches 811 students in grades 5 through 6. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so BARBARA JORDAN INT sits 26% larger than that benchmark.
SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 14,947 students; BARBARA JORDAN INT is among them.
Looking at the student body, BARBARA JORDAN INT logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 30% White, 14% Black, 8% multiracial.
In terms of school funding signals, BARBARA JORDAN INT logs 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 33% of students at BARBARA JORDAN INT qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Guadalupe County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BARBARA JORDAN INT sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 59.7%; this one delivers 46.9%.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Guadalupe County put median household income runs about $92,375, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Guadalupe County's 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,977 students), BARBARA JORDAN INT is one campus in the mix.
WATTS EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BARBARA JORDAN INT comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 45.5%.
The school occupies a commuter-belt site.
Over the past 7-year window. BARBARA JORDAN INT's enrollment has ticked up 18% since 2018, when it stood at 689 (now 811). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 40% to 30%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 today.
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