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ROBINSON 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 67 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 52 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 31 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 34 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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 ROBINSON J H
Located at 410 W LYNDALE, in ROBINSON, Texas, ROBINSON J H is a tight-knit 6-8 campus that teaches 383 students (grades 7 through 8), part of ROBINSON ISD. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 40% smaller than typical.
ROBINSON J H is one of 6 schools operated by ROBINSON ISD, a district that hosts 2,378 students overall.
Looking at the student body, ROBINSON J H lists that White students make up the majority at 57%. The remainder breaks down as 36% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 43% of students at ROBINSON J H qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of McLennan County's rate of about 62%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ROBINSON J H performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.3%, the actual is 53.0%, a residual of -2.3 points.
In the broader community, census data for McLennan County shows the typical household earns roughly $66,643 per year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across McLennan County's 124 public schools (combined enrollment of about 45,703 students), ROBINSON J H is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: ROBINSON H S, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ROBINSON J H. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ROBINSON J H at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 41.7%.
Geographically, the school is in a rural area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ROBINSON J H has edged up 7%, going from 357 students in 2018 to 383 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 65% to 57% over that span.
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