JONES INT SC

JONES INT SC, a mid-sized middle-grades school in FORNEY, Texas, run under FORNEY ISD, educates 758 students, covering grades 5 through 6.

Across the 24 schools in FORNEY ISD (18,565 students total), JONES INT SC accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, JONES INT SC reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 28% Black, 24% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Kaufman County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting JONES INT SC higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 44% of students at JONES INT SC qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Kaufman County's rate of about 59%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, JONES INT SC sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 55.0%; actual is 38.3%, a gap of -16.8 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Kaufman County put median household earnings sit near $89,485, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Kaufman County runs 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,319 students), of which JONES INT SC is one.

WARREN MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JONES INT SC. On composite proficiency, JONES INT SC comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 57.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.