JIM NED MIDDLE

JIM NED MIDDLE is a junior high of minimally staffed scale in TUSCOLA, Texas, run under JIM NED CISD, educateing 245 students in grades 7 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so JIM NED MIDDLE sits 62% leaner than that benchmark.

JIM NED CISD comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,639 students; JIM NED MIDDLE is among them.

Demographically, JIM NED MIDDLE reports that nearly all students (85%) are White; the rest breaks down as 11% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Taylor County as a whole is about 67% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, JIM NED MIDDLE records 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting JIM NED MIDDLE higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 16% of students at JIM NED MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Taylor County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, JIM NED MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.9%, the actual is 70.5%, a residual of +3.5 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Taylor County indicate median household income runs about $67,139, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Taylor County's 54 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,159 students), JIM NED MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

JIM NED H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around JIM NED MIDDLE. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts JIM NED MIDDLE at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 68.5%.

JIM NED MIDDLE operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 16%: 293 students in 2018 compared to 245 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

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