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What's one thing LINDA JOBE MIDDLE gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
820
Middle
DISTRICT 757 · STATE 643
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MANSFIELD ISD·NCES 482892011818
Linda Jobe Middle School
2491 GERTIE BARRETT RD, MANSFIELD, TX 76063 · (682) 314-4400 · Tarrant County
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL820 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 67% of Texas public middle schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public middle schools
Student : Teacher
16.2:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.5:1 · STATE 14.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
444 students
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 415 | 51% |
| Grade 8 | 405 | 49% |
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
59.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +29.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
56.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +34.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 56 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 29 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 34 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 31.0% | 28.0% | 22.0% | 19.0% |
| Mathematics | 24.0% | 32.0% | 20.0% | 24.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 59.0% | 56.0% |
| 2024-25 | 58.0% | 56.0% |
| 2023-24 | 55.0% | 46.0% |
| 2022-23 | 40.0% | 43.0% |
| 2021-22 | 40.0% | 35.0% |
| 2020-21 | 30.0% | 22.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
49.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.6%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Linda Jobe Middle School
Linda Jobe Middle School's state test result (49.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linda Jobe Middle School this school | 820 | 54.1% | 49.2% |
| Donna Shepard Academy MANSFIELD | 819 | 57.4% | 49.2% |
| Jerry R Walker Middle School LITTLE ELM | 885 | 52.5% | 40.5% |
| McMath Middle School DENTON | 644 | 55.0% | 39.6% |
| Ed Willkie Middle School FORT WORTH | 775 | 49.4% | 41.5% |
| Brenham Junior High School BRENHAM | 756 | 58.1% | 42.6% |
Matched among Texas middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Linda Jobe Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Tarrant County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.2% | #529 of 1,635 | #38 of 108 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 56.0% | #395 of 1,670 ▼ 31 | #28 of 112 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #620 of 1,670 ▲ 16 | #44 of 112 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +16.0pp | #455 of 1,570 | #23 of 110 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 820 | #533 of 1,749 | #37 of 115 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.2:1 | #1,157 of 1,542 | #81 of 112 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.7% | #202 of 1,543 | #35 of 112 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 54.1% | #1,067 of 1,648 | #68 of 109 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.1% | #560 of 942 | #43 of 74 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
820
-65 (-7%) vs 2020
+20% since 2010-11, when it was 681
Student : Teacher
16.2:1
was 16.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 820 | 50.6 | 16.2:1 | 54% (444) |
| 2023-24 | 842 | 52.6 | 16.0:1 | 54% (456) |
| 2022-23 | 884 | 54.5 | 16.2:1 | 52% (464) |
| 2020-21 | 885 | 55 | 16.1:1 | 48% (428) |
| 2017-18 | 933 | 56.4 | 16.6:1 | 42% (388) |
| 2015-16 | 803 | 51 | 15.8:1 | 40% (325) |
| 2010-11 | 681 | 43 | 15.8:1 | 36% (248) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Linda Jobe Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (933 to 820); teachers down 10% (56.4 to 50.6).
About Linda Jobe Middle School
In MANSFIELD, Texas, part of Tarrant County, Linda Jobe Middle School is a middle-grades school. The school teaches grades 7 through 8 and enrolls 820 students. That puts enrollment 28% larger than the 643-student average for middle schools in Texas.
Linda Jobe Middle School is in MANSFIELD ISD, a district with 35,354 students across 47 schools.
Of every 100 students at Linda Jobe Middle School, about 40 are Hispanic, the largest group. It is also 34% White, 19% Black, 4% multiracial, and 3% Asian. For comparison, the population of Tarrant County is roughly 30% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 69, compared with 70 nationally.
With 50.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 16.2:1. Middle schools in Texas average 14.4:1, 1.8 fewer students per teacher than here. Roughly 54% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Tarrant County report 63%.
Among Texas public middle schools, Linda Jobe Middle School outscored 67%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.
Test results at Linda Jobe Middle School are 1.4 points below what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (49.2% actual, 50.6% predicted).
The county, Tarrant County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $84,207, about 35% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. The county has 639 public schools and about 385,835 students.
Nancy Neal Elementary School is about 0.6 miles from Linda Jobe Middle School, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Linda Jobe Middle School places 6th of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Linda Jobe Middle School has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
The school's student count decreased 7% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
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Tarrant County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,167,390
Census ACS
Median income
$84,207
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
639
385,835 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MANSFIELD ISD
- Mansfield Lake Ridge High SchoolHigh · 2,751 students
- Mansfield Legacy High SchoolHigh · 2,568 students
- Mansfield High SchoolHigh · 2,552 students
- Mansfield Timberview High SchoolHigh · 1,788 students
- Mansfield Summit High SchoolHigh · 1,772 students
- Charlene McKinzey Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,043 students
Other schools in MANSFIELD
- Mansfield Lake Ridge High SchoolHigh · 2,751 students
- Mansfield Legacy High SchoolHigh · 2,568 students
- Mansfield High SchoolHigh · 2,552 students
- Charlene McKinzey Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,043 students
- Brooks Wester Middle SchoolMiddle · 945 students
- Alma Martinez Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 930 students
Nearby schools
- Nancy Neal Elementary School0.6 mi · 427
- Donna Shepard Academy1.0 mi · 819
- Mansfield Frontier STEM Academy1.1 mi · 326
- Mary Jo Sheppard Elementary School1.1 mi · 440
- Cross Timbers Intermediate School1.9 mi · 588
- Carol Holt Elementary School2.0 mi · 391
Frequently asked questions
About Linda Jobe Middle SchoolHow many students attend Linda Jobe Middle School?
Linda Jobe Middle School enrolls approximately 820 students in grades 07-08.
Is Linda Jobe Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Linda Jobe Middle School is a middle school covering grades 07-08.
How many teachers does Linda Jobe Middle School have?
Linda Jobe Middle School employs 51 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.2:1.
What is the student diversity at Linda Jobe Middle School?
Student demographics at Linda Jobe Middle School are roughly 34% White, 40% Hispanic, 19% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Linda Jobe Middle School in?
Linda Jobe Middle School is part of MANSFIELD ISD.
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