OLNEY J H

Located at 300 S AVE H, in OLNEY, Texas, OLNEY J H is a very small 6-8 campus that caters to 139 students (grades 6 through 8), one of the schools within OLNEY ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so OLNEY J H sits 78% smaller than that benchmark.

OLNEY J H is one of 3 schools operated by OLNEY ISD, a district that instructs 691 students overall.

Looking at the student body, OLNEY J H reports that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment. Other groups include 32% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 82% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Around 52% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, OLNEY J H performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.3%, the actual is 61.8%, a residual of +10.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Young County) records that the typical household earns roughly $68,010 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. OLNEY J H is one of 8 public schools in Young County (combined enrollment of about 3,066 students).

OLNEY EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, OLNEY J H comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 58.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. OLNEY J H's enrollment has contracted 12% since 2018, when it stood at 158 (now 139). Over the same period, the Hispanic share fell from 42% to 32%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 9.2:1 today.

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