JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE

JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE operates as an average-sized middle-grades school in JACKSONVILLE, Texas, part of JACKSONVILLE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 629 students spanning grades 7 through 8.

JACKSONVILLE ISD runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 4,700 students. JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 59% of enrollment; the rest consists of 27% White, 12% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Cherokee County's rate of about 66%.

With demographic context factored in, JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.2%, the actual is 31.6%, a residual of -3.7 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Cherokee County put the typical household earns roughly $61,261 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cherokee County runs 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,948 students), of which JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE is one.

FRED DOUGLASS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 38.9%.

JACKSONVILLE MIDDLE operates from an outlying location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 9%: 688 students in 2018 compared to 629 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 50% to 59% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 in 2025.

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