CALDWELL J H
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 51 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 18 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 14 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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 CALDWELL J H
CALDWELL J H is an intermediate school of cozy scale in CALDWELL, Texas, one of the schools within CALDWELL ISD, works with 298 students in grades 7 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 54% below typical.
CALDWELL J H is one of 4 schools operated by CALDWELL ISD, a district that enrolls 1,952 students overall.
On demographics, CALDWELL J H shows that the largest single group is White at 45%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 41% Hispanic, 10% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Burleson County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Around 60% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CALDWELL J H tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 47.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 56.1%.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Burleson County put the typical household earns roughly $70,000 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Burleson County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,128 students), of which CALDWELL J H is one.
Nearest neighbor: CALDWELL INT, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, CALDWELL J H comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 52.5%.
The school occupies a rural site.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 28%: 413 students in 2018 compared to 298 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.
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