LINDA JOBE MIDDLE

LINDA JOBE MIDDLE is an average-sized 6-8 campus in MANSFIELD, Texas, overseen by MANSFIELD ISD. The school works with 820 students in grades 7 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 28% larger than the state mean of about 643.

Within MANSFIELD ISD, which oversees 47 schools and 35,354 students, LINDA JOBE MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

Demographically, LINDA JOBE MIDDLE records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 40%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 34% White, 19% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. About 54% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.

With demographic context factored in, LINDA JOBE MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.2%, the actual is 49.3%, a residual of -1.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Tarrant County shows the typical household earns roughly $84,207 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Tarrant County's 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), LINDA JOBE MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is NANCY NEAL EL, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LINDA JOBE MIDDLE. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LINDA JOBE MIDDLE at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 57.9%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 12%: 933 students in 2018 compared to 820 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 51% to 34%.

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