JONES ELEMENTARY/INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 18 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 16 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 45% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About JONES ELEMENTARY/INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL
JONES ELEMENTARY/INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL, an intimate elementary school in BRACKETTVILLE, Texas, overseen by BRACKETT ISD, hosts 244 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 53% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.
Within BRACKETT ISD, which oversees 3 schools and 521 students, JONES ELEMENTARY/INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, JONES ELEMENTARY/INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 74%. The remainder consists of 25% White. The wider county runs roughly 58% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, JONES ELEMENTARY/INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL shows 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.5:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 61% of students at JONES ELEMENTARY/INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
After controlling for student poverty, JONES ELEMENTARY/INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.0%; this one delivers 45.1%.
Across the wider county, Kinney County reports that median household income runs about $70,000, 12% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Kinney County runs 3 public schools (combined enrollment of about 521 students), of which JONES ELEMENTARY/INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one.
The closest other public school is BRACKETT H S, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, JONES ELEMENTARY/INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 45.0%.
JONES ELEMENTARY/INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL operates from a rural location.
Over the past 7-year window. JONES ELEMENTARY/INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 13% since 2018, when it stood at 282 (now 244). Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 65% to 74%.
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