LIVINGSTON J H

LIVINGSTON J H operates as a mid-tier junior high in LIVINGSTON, Texas, run under LIVINGSTON ISD. Current enrollment sits at 901 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so LIVINGSTON J H sits 40% above that benchmark.

LIVINGSTON ISD comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 4,016 students; LIVINGSTON J H is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LIVINGSTON J H reports that 55% of the student body identifies as White; the rest reads as 32% Hispanic, 7% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Polk County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 58% of students at LIVINGSTON J H qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, LIVINGSTON J H tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.8%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Polk County) logs that median household earnings sit near $62,259, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Polk County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,045 students), of which LIVINGSTON J H is one.

The closest other public school is TIMBER CREEK EL, roughly 1.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. On composite proficiency, LIVINGSTON J H comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 41.8%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LIVINGSTON J H has declined 5%, going from 944 students in 2018 to 901 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 23% to 32%.

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