JONES MIDDLE

JONES MIDDLE, an expansive 6-8 campus in HUMBLE, Texas, run under ALDINE ISD, enrolls 1,235 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 92% bigger than typical.

Within ALDINE ISD, which oversees 76 schools and 56,419 students, JONES MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, JONES MIDDLE records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 43% Black, 3% White, 2% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, JONES MIDDLE has 82 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 82% of students at JONES MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, JONES MIDDLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 38.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 31.9%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate median household earnings sit near $74,983, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which JONES MIDDLE is one.

HUMBLE EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts JONES MIDDLE at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 38.1%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.