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HALLSVILLE J H
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 66 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 35 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 17 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About HALLSVILLE J H
HALLSVILLE J H is a junior high of moderately sized scale in HALLSVILLE, Texas, one of the schools within HALLSVILLE ISD, works with 768 students in grades 7 through 8.
HALLSVILLE ISD comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 24,602 students; HALLSVILLE J H is among them.
Demographically, HALLSVILLE J H shows that White students make up the majority at 69%. The remainder comes out to 17% Hispanic, 8% Black, 5% multiracial.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 40% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Harrison County (around 61%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
With demographic context factored in, HALLSVILLE J H tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 56.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 67.3%.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Harrison County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,103 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. HALLSVILLE J H is one of 29 public schools in Harrison County (combined enrollment of about 32,062 students).
The closest other public school is HALLSVILLE INT, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HALLSVILLE J H at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 58.6%.
Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HALLSVILLE J H has contracted 35%, going from 1,186 students in 2018 to 768 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 74% to 69% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.
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Harrison County at a glance
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- HALLSVILLE EAST ELElementary · 598 students
- HALLSVILLE NORTH ELElementary · 592 students
- HALLSVILLE DAEPCombined
- HALLSVILLE INT0.3 mi · 759
- HALLSVILLE EAST EL0.4 mi · 598
- TEXAS VIRTUAL ACADEMY AT HALLSVILLE0.9 mi · 19,731
- HALLSVILLE NORTH EL1.5 mi · 592
- HALLSVILLE H S2.3 mi · 1,451
- HALLSVILLE WEST EL7.2 mi · 703