BIG SPRING J H

Located at 624 E 6TH ST, in BIG SPRING, Texas, BIG SPRING J H is a cozy intermediate school that serves 490 students (grades 7 through 8), operated by BIG SPRING ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so BIG SPRING J H sits 24% smaller than that benchmark.

BIG SPRING J H is one of 8 schools operated by BIG SPRING ISD, a district that enrolls 3,742 students overall.

Looking at the student body, BIG SPRING J H reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 68%. Other groups include 21% White, 5% Black, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 70% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Howard County's rate of about 60%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BIG SPRING J H performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.2%, the actual is 30.8%, a residual of -12.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Howard County put the typical household earns roughly $69,649 per year, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Howard County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,521 students), BIG SPRING J H is one campus in the mix.

BIG SPRING H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around BIG SPRING J H. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BIG SPRING J H ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 45.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 19%: 606 students in 2018 compared to 490 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 today.

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