LEON H S

LEON H S is a cozy 9-12 campus in JEWETT, Texas, run under LEON ISD. The school instructs 372 students in grades 6 through 12. That puts it 53% leaner than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.

Within LEON ISD, which oversees 2 schools and 758 students, LEON H S is one campus in the system.

On demographics, LEON H S shows that the largest single group is White at 55%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 39% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Leon County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. An estimated 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, LEON H S tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.4%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Leon County indicate the typical household earns roughly $61,449 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Leon County's 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,286 students), LEON H S is one campus in the mix.

LEON EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LEON H S ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 48.6%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 81%: 206 students in 2018 compared to 372 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 69% to 55% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 7.8:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

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