DANNY JONES MIDDLE

Set in MANSFIELD, Texas, DANNY JONES MIDDLE is a reasonably sized intermediate school, overseen by MANSFIELD ISD. It enrolls 812 students across grades 7 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 26% bigger than the state mean of about 643.

MANSFIELD ISD runs 47 schools in total, collectively educating 35,354 students. DANNY JONES MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, DANNY JONES MIDDLE shows that the largest single group is Black at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 17% Hispanic, 16% White, 14% Asian, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 18% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, DANNY JONES MIDDLE has 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.0:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 33% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.

After controlling for student poverty, DANNY JONES MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.6%, the actual is 63.7%, a residual of +4.2 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Tarrant County) records that the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Tarrant County runs 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), of which DANNY JONES MIDDLE is one.

MARY LILLARD I S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DANNY JONES MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, DANNY JONES MIDDLE comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 60.9%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DANNY JONES MIDDLE has declined 24%, going from 1,068 students in 2018 to 812 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 27% to 16% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 in 2025.

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