LUCY ARAGON J H
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 28 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 4 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About LUCY ARAGON J H
Set in FREER, Texas, LUCY ARAGON J H is a tiny junior high, part of FREER ISD. It educates 146 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so LUCY ARAGON J H sits 77% smaller than that benchmark.
Across the 3 schools in FREER ISD (709 students total), LUCY ARAGON J H accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, LUCY ARAGON J H shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (96%). Other groups include 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 82% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the resource side, On paper, LUCY ARAGON J H has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Roughly 86% of students at LUCY ARAGON J H qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
After controlling for student poverty, LUCY ARAGON J H tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 36.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 28.1%.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Duval County) reports that median household earnings sit near $49,038, about 7% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 18%. LUCY ARAGON J H is one of 10 public schools in Duval County (combined enrollment of about 2,346 students).
FREER H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, LUCY ARAGON J H comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.1%.
The school occupies a rural site.
Looking at the recent track record. LUCY ARAGON J H's enrollment has declined 22% since 2018, when it stood at 186 (now 146). Hispanic enrollment moved from 89% to 96% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 8.8:1 in 2025.
On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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