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PERRYTON J H
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 13 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About PERRYTON J H
Set in PERRYTON, Texas, PERRYTON J H is a compact middle-grades school, one of the schools within PERRYTON ISD. It educates 395 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so PERRYTON J H sits 39% below that benchmark.
Across the 6 schools in PERRYTON ISD (1,802 students total), PERRYTON J H accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, PERRYTON J H lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 72%. Other groups include 26% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 57%.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Roughly 61% of students at PERRYTON J H qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
With demographic context factored in, PERRYTON J H tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 47.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 51.2%.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Ochiltree County indicate median household income runs about $70,183, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Ochiltree County runs 6 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,802 students), of which PERRYTON J H is one.
PERRYTON KINDER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around PERRYTON J H. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PERRYTON J H at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 52.3%.
The campus sits in a small-town setting.
Over the past 7-year window. PERRYTON J H's enrollment has shrank 25% since 2018, when it stood at 528 (now 395). The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 11.0:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.
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