GATESVILLE J H

Set in GATESVILLE, Texas, GATESVILLE J H is a close-knit 6-8 campus, part of GATESVILLE ISD. It enrolls 394 students across grades 7 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so GATESVILLE J H sits 39% leaner than that benchmark.

Within GATESVILLE ISD, which oversees 5 schools and 2,668 students, GATESVILLE J H is one campus in the system.

On demographics, GATESVILLE J H lists that White students make up the majority at 71%. Beyond that, the school logs 22% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 59%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. An estimated 44% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Coryell County's rate of about 55%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GATESVILLE J H performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.8%, the actual is 45.8%, a residual of -9.0 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Coryell County) logs that median household income runs about $71,301, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Coryell County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,561 students), of which GATESVILLE J H is one.

Nearest neighbor: GATESVILLE H S, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, GATESVILLE J H comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 49.5%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GATESVILLE J H has edged down 15%, going from 461 students in 2018 to 394 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

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