NICHOLS INT

Set in JACKSONVILLE, Texas, NICHOLS INT is a medium-sized junior high, run under JACKSONVILLE ISD. It enrolls 674 students across grades 5 through 6.

JACKSONVILLE ISD comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 4,700 students; NICHOLS INT is among them.

Demographically, NICHOLS INT shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 56% of enrollment; the rest looks like 24% White, 15% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Cherokee County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, NICHOLS INT logs 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Roughly 88% of students at NICHOLS INT qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Cherokee County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, NICHOLS INT is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 35.5%; NICHOLS INT posts 18.9%, -16.6 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Cherokee County) records that the typical household earns roughly $61,261 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Cherokee County's 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,948 students), NICHOLS INT is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is COMPASS CENTER, roughly 0.6 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, NICHOLS INT comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 40.7%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 16%: 803 students in 2018 compared to 674 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 51% to 56%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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