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J LYNDAL HUGHES EL
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About J LYNDAL HUGHES EL
J LYNDAL HUGHES EL operates as an average-sized primary school in ROANOKE, Texas, overseen by NORTHWEST ISD. Current enrollment sits at 672 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 29% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.
Across the 37 schools in NORTHWEST ISD (32,098 students total), J LYNDAL HUGHES EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, J LYNDAL HUGHES EL shows that the largest single group is White at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 24% Hispanic, 19% Black, 7% Asian, 7% multiracial.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting J LYNDAL HUGHES EL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 42% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, J LYNDAL HUGHES EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.5%, the actual is 53.1%, a residual of -2.4 points.
In the area at large, census data for Tarrant County shows median household earnings sit near $84,207, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 J LYNDAL HUGHES EL is one.
The closest other public school is JOHN M TIDWELL MIDDLE, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, J LYNDAL HUGHES EL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 61.6%.
The campus sits in an urban setting.
Five-year trend. J LYNDAL HUGHES EL's enrollment has climbed 6% since 2018, when it stood at 632 (now 672). The White share of enrollment edged down from 58% to 42% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.
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