H T JONES EL

H T JONES EL is an elementary campus of medium-sized scale in HEMPSTEAD, Texas, run under WALLER ISD, teacheing 720 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so H T JONES EL sits 39% above that benchmark.

WALLER ISD runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 9,905 students. H T JONES EL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, H T JONES EL reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 66% of enrollment. Other groups include 17% Black, 14% White, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

On the resource side, H T JONES EL records 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.1:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 80% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Waller County's rate of about 60%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, H T JONES EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.1%, the actual is 33.5%, a residual of -5.6 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Waller County put the typical household earns roughly $80,397 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Waller County's 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,294 students), H T JONES EL is one campus in the mix.

WALLER J J An E P is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts H T JONES EL at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 34.5%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. H T JONES EL's enrollment has ticked up 13% since 2018, when it stood at 636 (now 720). The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 58% to 66% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.

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