JONES FUTURES ACADEMY

JONES FUTURES ACADEMY is a four-year high school of rural-scale scale in HOUSTON, Texas, run under HOUSTON ISD, enrolling 298 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 63% leaner than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.

JONES FUTURES ACADEMY is one of 273 schools operated by HOUSTON ISD, a district that educates 176,727 students overall.

Looking at the student body, JONES FUTURES ACADEMY reports that 70% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder looks like 28% Black. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, JONES FUTURES ACADEMY has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.9:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, JONES FUTURES ACADEMY is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 32.7%; this one delivers 49.5%, a residual of +16.8 points.

In the broader community, census data for Harris County shows the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), JONES FUTURES ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: KELSO EL, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JONES FUTURES ACADEMY. On composite proficiency, JONES FUTURES ACADEMY comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 33.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JONES FUTURES ACADEMY has ticked down 31%, going from 430 students in 2018 to 298 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

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