EAGLE PASS J H

EAGLE PASS J H is a middle-grades school of roomy scale in EAGLE PASS, Texas, one of the schools within EAGLE PASS ISD, educateing 1,040 students in grades 7 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 62% larger than typical.

Across the 24 schools in EAGLE PASS ISD (13,820 students total), EAGLE PASS J H accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, EAGLE PASS J H records that 97% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest consists of 2% White. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. An estimated 70% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Maverick County runs at roughly 78%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, EAGLE PASS 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 40.9%, a residual of -2.3 points.

In the broader community, census data for Maverick County shows the typical household earns roughly $49,568 per year, about 14% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 20%. EAGLE PASS J H is one of 24 public schools in Maverick County (combined enrollment of about 13,820 students).

LIBERTY EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around EAGLE PASS J H. On composite proficiency, EAGLE PASS J H comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Looking at the recent track record. EAGLE PASS J H's enrollment has declined 4% since 2018, when it stood at 1,089 (now 1,040). Class-load math has rose: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 in 2025.

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