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JACKSBORO EL
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 35 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 29 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 JACKSBORO EL
Set in JACKSBORO, Texas, JACKSBORO EL is a moderately sized primary school, one of the schools within JACKSBORO ISD. It hosts 442 students across grades pre-K through 5.
Across the 3 schools in JACKSBORO ISD (1,022 students total), JACKSBORO EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, JACKSBORO EL lists that 59% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 38% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, JACKSBORO EL has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 71% of students at JACKSBORO EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Jack County (around 61%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.
After controlling for student poverty, JACKSBORO EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.0%; this one delivers 38.4%.
In the surrounding community, census data for Jack County shows median household income runs about $68,079, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Jack County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,613 students), of which JACKSBORO EL is one.
JACKSBORO H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around JACKSBORO EL. On composite proficiency, JACKSBORO EL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 46.2%.
The campus sits in an outlying setting.
Looking at the recent track record. JACKSBORO EL's enrollment has contracted 16% since 2018, when it stood at 527 (now 442). Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.
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Jack County at a glance
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- JACKSBORO H SHigh · 321 students
- JACKSBORO MIDDLEMiddle · 259 students
- JACKSBORO J HElementary
- JACKSBORO H SHigh · 321 students
- JACKSBORO MIDDLEMiddle · 259 students
- JACKSBORO J HElementary
- JACKSBORO H S0.4 mi · 321
- JACKSBORO MIDDLE0.6 mi · 259
- BRYSON SCHOOL12.7 mi · 267
- PERRIN SCHOOL14.6 mi · 324
- GRAFORD SCHOOL20.3 mi · 339
- CHICO H S21.5 mi · 166