JIM NED INT
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% 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%.
About JIM NED INT
JIM NED INT operates as a cozy intermediate school in TUSCOLA, Texas, one of the schools within JIM NED CISD. Current enrollment sits at 410 students spanning grades 4 through 6. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so JIM NED INT sits 36% below that benchmark.
JIM NED INT is one of 5 schools operated by JIM NED CISD, a district that enrolls 1,639 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, JIM NED INT logs that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Taylor County as a whole is about 67% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, On paper, JIM NED INT has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.5:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 18% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Taylor County's rate of about 53%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JIM NED INT tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 66.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 64.7%.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Taylor County put median household earnings sit near $67,139, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Taylor County's 54 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,159 students), JIM NED INT is one campus in the mix.
JIM NED H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, JIM NED INT comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 69.3%.
The campus sits in a rural setting.
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Taylor County at a glance
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