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PLAINVIEW J H
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 14 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 13 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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%.
About PLAINVIEW J H
Set in PLAINVIEW, Texas, PLAINVIEW J H is a middle-of-the-pack 6-8 campus, overseen by PLAINVIEW ISD. It serves 634 students across grades 7 through 8.
Within PLAINVIEW ISD, which oversees 7 schools and 4,077 students, PLAINVIEW J H is one campus in the system.
Demographically, PLAINVIEW J H shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (84%). Other groups include 11% White, 4% Black. By comparison, Hale County as a whole is about 61% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. An estimated 74% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PLAINVIEW J H tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 35.5%.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Hale County put median household income runs about $51,897, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. PLAINVIEW J H is one of 24 public schools in Hale County (combined enrollment of about 6,064 students).
The closest other public school is PLAINVIEW H S, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PLAINVIEW J H. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PLAINVIEW J H ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 37.9%.
Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.
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