POTEET J H

POTEET J H is a 6-8 campus of small scale in POTEET, Texas, run under POTEET ISD, instructing 393 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so POTEET J H sits 39% smaller than that benchmark.

POTEET J H is one of 5 schools operated by POTEET ISD, a district that works with 1,837 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, POTEET J H records that 87% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder comes out to 11% White. By comparison, Atascosa County as a whole is about 65% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, POTEET J H has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, POTEET J H is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 42.2%; POTEET J H posts 21.7%, -20.5 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Atascosa County indicate median household income runs about $70,770, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. POTEET J H is one of 32 public schools in Atascosa County (combined enrollment of about 8,105 students).

Nearest neighbor: POTEET H S, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, POTEET J H comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 3%: 381 students in 2018 compared to 393 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.