SOMERSET J H

SOMERSET J H operates as a reasonably sized junior high in VON ORMY, Texas, operated by SOMERSET ISD. Current enrollment sits at 608 students spanning grades 7 through 8.

Across the 8 schools in SOMERSET ISD (4,259 students total), SOMERSET J H accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, SOMERSET J H reports that 93% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest breaks down as 6% White. The wider county runs roughly 60% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, SOMERSET J H has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 84% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Bexar County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SOMERSET J H sits in the top 10% of Texas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 37.0%; actual is 56.5%, +19.4 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Bexar County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $72,341 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Bexar County's 638 public schools (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students), SOMERSET J H is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is S/SGT MICHAEL P BARRERA VETERANS EL, roughly 1.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SOMERSET J H comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 49.7%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. SOMERSET J H's enrollment has decreased 5% since 2018, when it stood at 642 (now 608). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 85% to 93%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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