PEARLAND J H SOUTH

Set in PEARLAND, Texas, PEARLAND J H SOUTH is a reasonably sized middle school, operated by PEARLAND ISD. It hosts 764 students across grades 7 through 8.

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

On demographics, PEARLAND J H SOUTH logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 24% White, 17% Black, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Brazoria County as a whole is about 32% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, PEARLAND J H SOUTH lists 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.3:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 53% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, PEARLAND J H SOUTH tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 55.8%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Brazoria County indicate median household income runs about $97,993, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. PEARLAND J H SOUTH is one of 115 public schools in Brazoria County (combined enrollment of about 75,767 students).

Nearest neighbor: ROBERT TURNER COLLEGE AND CAREER H S, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PEARLAND J H SOUTH. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PEARLAND J H SOUTH at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 62.7%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PEARLAND J H SOUTH has shrank 14%, going from 890 students in 2018 to 764 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 41% to 51% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.

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