G W HARBY J H

Located at 1910 ROSHARON RD, in ALVIN, Texas, G W HARBY J H is a medium-sized middle-grades school that educates 781 students (grades 6 through 8), one of the schools within ALVIN ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so G W HARBY J H sits 21% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 37 schools in ALVIN ISD (30,038 students total), G W HARBY J H accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, G W HARBY J H logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 67%; the rest reads as 26% White, 4% Black, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 32% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 67% of students at G W HARBY J H qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Brazoria County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, G W HARBY J H sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.8%; this one delivers 44.8%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Brazoria County indicate median household income runs about $97,993, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. G W HARBY J H is one of 115 public schools in Brazoria County (combined enrollment of about 75,767 students).

Nearest neighbor: HOOD-CASE EL, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, G W HARBY J H comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 46.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at G W HARBY J H has ticked up 3%, going from 756 students in 2018 to 781 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 30% to 26%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 today.

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