MANVEL J H

MANVEL J H is a middle school of mid-sized scale in MANVEL, Texas, part of ALVIN ISD, hosting 705 students in grades 6 through 8.

Within ALVIN ISD, which oversees 37 schools and 30,038 students, MANVEL J H is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, MANVEL J H shows that the largest single group is Black at 41%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 29% Hispanic, 17% White, 10% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 14.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 43% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MANVEL J H performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.0%, the actual is 48.9%, a residual of -6.1 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Brazoria County indicate the typical household earns roughly $97,993 per year, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Brazoria County runs 115 public schools (combined enrollment of about 75,767 students), of which MANVEL J H is one.

The closest other public school is MANVEL H S, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MANVEL J H ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 50.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MANVEL J H has shrank 38%, going from 1,132 students in 2018 to 705 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 38% to 29% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

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