JONESBORO SCHOOL

As an intimate combined-grade school in JONESBORO, Texas, JONESBORO SCHOOL educates 337 students from grades pre-K through 12, operated by JONESBORO ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 31% leaner than the state mean of about 485.

JONESBORO SCHOOL sits inside JONESBORO ISD, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, JONESBORO SCHOOL logs that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. The state averages around 11.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 55% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, JONESBORO SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 49.9%; JONESBORO SCHOOL posts 30.9%, -19.0 points below that line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Hamilton County indicate the typical household earns roughly $58,219 per year, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across Hamilton County's 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,787 students), JONESBORO SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is CRANFILLS GAP SCHOOL, roughly 11.1 miles away. On composite proficiency, JONESBORO SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 52.0%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 5%: 322 students in 2018 compared to 337 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment contracted from 11% to 7% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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