HARWOOD J H

HARWOOD J H, a sizable middle-grades school in BEDFORD, Texas, overseen by HURST-EULESS-BEDFORD ISD, caters to 1,024 students, covering grades 7 through 9. That puts it 59% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

HURST-EULESS-BEDFORD ISD runs 31 schools in total, collectively educating 23,262 students. HARWOOD J H is one of those campuses.

Demographically, HARWOOD J H logs that the most-represented group is White (34%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 28% Hispanic, 18% Black, 10% Asian, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Tarrant County as a whole is about 48% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, HARWOOD J H has 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting HARWOOD J H higher than the state norm the norm. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Tarrant County (around 63%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, HARWOOD J H is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 54.8%; this one delivers 71.0%, a residual of +16.2 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Tarrant County) logs that median household income runs about $84,207, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Tarrant County runs 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), of which HARWOOD J H is one.

MEADOW CREEK EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HARWOOD J H comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 57.0%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 1,000 students in 2018 compared to 1,024 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 41% to 34%.

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