PEARLAND J H EAST

As an average-sized junior high in PEARLAND, Texas, PEARLAND J H EAST serves 801 students from grades 7 through 8, part of PEARLAND ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so PEARLAND J H EAST sits 25% bigger than that benchmark.

PEARLAND ISD comprises 24 schools with combined enrollment of 20,862 students; PEARLAND J H EAST is among them.

On the student-mix side, PEARLAND J H EAST reports that 41% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 40% White, 10% Black, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 32%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting PEARLAND J H EAST higher than the state norm the norm. About 35% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Brazoria County (around 50%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, PEARLAND J H EAST performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.4%, the actual is 61.9%, a residual of +3.5 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Brazoria County shows median household income runs about $97,993, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. PEARLAND J H EAST is one of 115 public schools in Brazoria County (combined enrollment of about 75,767 students).

Nearest neighbor: PACE CENTER, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PEARLAND J H EAST. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PEARLAND J H EAST at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 59.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 782 students in 2018 compared to 801 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 30% to 41% across the same window.

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