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SPRING HILL J H
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 56 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 23 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 14 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About SPRING HILL J H
SPRING HILL J H, a modestly sized middle-grades school in LONGVIEW, Texas, one of the schools within SPRING HILL ISD, hosts 451 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so SPRING HILL J H sits 30% below that benchmark.
Across the 4 schools in SPRING HILL ISD (1,901 students total), SPRING HILL J H accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, SPRING HILL J H records that 61% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 22% Hispanic, 10% Black, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting SPRING HILL J H higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 41% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Gregg County's rate of about 68%.
After controlling for student poverty, SPRING HILL J H performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.0%, the actual is 57.0%, a residual of +1.0 points.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Gregg County put the typical household earns roughly $66,550 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Gregg County runs 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,498 students), of which SPRING HILL J H is one.
Nearest neighbor: SPRING HILL H S, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SPRING HILL J H ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 62.0%.
SPRING HILL J H operates from a high-density location.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SPRING HILL J H has ticked down 3%, going from 463 students in 2018 to 451 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 15% to 22% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 in 2025.
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