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What's the one class at VIDOR J H every student should take?
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Enrollment
612
Middle
DISTRICT 422 · STATE 643
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·VIDOR ISD·NCES 484416005026
Vidor Junior High School
945 N TRAM RD, VIDOR, TX 77662 · (409) 951-8970 · Orange County
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL612 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 53% of Texas public middle schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public middle schools
Student : Teacher
15.5:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 14.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
52%
320 students
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 290 | 47% |
| Grade 8 | 322 | 53% |
Student demographics
25%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 28% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Vidor Junior High School→Vidor High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within VIDOR ISD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
49.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +39.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
42.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +32.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 42 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 39 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 32 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 24.0% | 25.0% | 26.0% | 25.0% |
| Mathematics | 16.0% | 26.0% | 22.0% | 36.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 49.0% | 42.0% |
| 2024-25 | 54.0% | 48.0% |
| 2023-24 | 57.0% | 47.0% |
| 2022-23 | 50.0% | 44.0% |
| 2021-22 | 44.0% | 31.0% |
| 2020-21 | 10.0% | 10.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
49.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.4%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Vidor Junior High School
Vidor Junior High School's state test result (49.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vidor Junior High School this school | 612 | 52.3% | 49.0% |
| Vidor Middle School VIDOR | 653 | 59.7% | 35.5% |
| Frank Stone Middle School PARIS | 521 | 48.9% | 42.1% |
| Springtown Middle School SPRINGTOWN | 633 | 47.4% | 35.4% |
| Tarkington Middle School CLEVELAND | 411 | 54.0% | 37.3% |
| Springtown Intermediate School SPRINGTOWN | 612 | 52.1% | 34.5% |
Matched among Texas middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Vidor Junior High School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #539 of 1,635 | #1 of 7 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.0% | #879 of 1,670 ▼ 293 | #2 of 7 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.0% | #1,109 of 1,670 ▼ 299 | #5 of 7 ▼ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.5pp | #199 of 1,570 | #3 of 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 612 | #907 of 1,749 | #3 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.5:1 | #985 of 1,542 | #6 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 24.6% | #1,264 of 1,543 | #5 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 52.3% | #1,098 of 1,648 | #5 of 7 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.5% | #835 of 942 | N/A |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
612
-64 (-9%) vs 2020
-34% since 1990-91, when it was 931
Student : Teacher
15.5:1
was 13.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 612 | 39.5 | 15.5:1 | 52% (320) |
| 2023-24 | 617 | 41.8 | 14.8:1 | 61% (378) |
| 2022-23 | 628 | 45.1 | 13.9:1 | 59% (369) |
| 2020-21 | 676 | 50 | 13.5:1 | 56% (380) |
| 2017-18 | 634 | 50 | 12.7:1 | 72% (455) |
| 2015-16 | 705 | 50 | 14.1:1 | 48% (338) |
| 2010-11 | 719 | 50 | 14.4:1 | 53% (383) |
| 2000-01 | 797 | 62 | 12.8:1 | 43% (345) |
| 1990-91 | 931 | 49 | 19.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Vidor Junior High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (634 to 612); teachers down 21% (50 to 39.5).
About Vidor Junior High School
Vidor Junior High School is a mid-sized middle-grades school in Texas, located in VIDOR. Federal data show 612 students enrolled in grades 7 through 8 in 2024-25.
VIDOR ISD, which runs Vidor Junior High School, has 7 schools and 4,165 students.
At Vidor Junior High School, 86% of students are White. Other students are 11% Hispanic. A diversity index of 25% means there is a 25% chance two randomly chosen students at Vidor Junior High School are from different groups.
Vidor Junior High School has 39.5 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.5:1. The average for middle schools in Texas is 14.4:1, so this school has more students per teacher. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Vidor Junior High School, 52% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among Texas public middle schools, Vidor Junior High School outscored 53%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
Vidor Junior High School posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 49.0%, compared with a predicted 51.4%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Texas schools on BeatsExpectations.
In the wider Orange County area, the median household earns about $72,104 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 18% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. Vidor Junior High School shares Orange County with 24 other public schools.
Measured in a straight line, Vidor JJAEP is about 0.8 miles from Vidor Junior High School. The five-mile area around Vidor Junior High School holds 6 other public schools. Among 8 nearby schools that report test results, Vidor Junior High School ranks 2nd on proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Mid-size: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased 9%. The school's ratio increased from 13.5:1 to 15.5:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Orange County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
85,307
Census ACS
Median income
$72,104
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
18%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
25
15,100 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in VIDOR ISD
- Vidor High SchoolHigh · 1,175 students
- Oak Forest Elementary SchoolElementary · 671 students
- Vidor Middle SchoolMiddle · 653 students
- Vidor Elementary SchoolElementary · 528 students
- Pine Forest Elementary SchoolElementary · 525 students
- Vidor JJAEPMiddle · 1 students
Other schools in VIDOR
- Vidor High SchoolHigh · 1,175 students
- Oak Forest Elementary SchoolElementary · 671 students
- Vidor Middle SchoolMiddle · 653 students
- Vidor Elementary SchoolElementary · 528 students
- Pine Forest Elementary SchoolElementary · 525 students
- Vidor JJAEPMiddle · 1 students
Nearby schools
- Vidor JJAEP0.8 mi · 1
- Vidor Elementary School0.8 mi · 528
- Oak Forest Elementary School1.0 mi · 671
- Vidor High School1.0 mi · 1,175
- Vidor Middle School1.2 mi · 653
- Pine Forest Elementary School3.3 mi · 525
Frequently asked questions
About Vidor Junior High SchoolHow large is Vidor Junior High School?
Vidor Junior High School enrolls approximately 612 students in grades 07-08.
What age range does Vidor Junior High School serve?
Vidor Junior High School serves students from grade 07 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Vidor Junior High School?
Approximately 15.5:1 students per teacher at Vidor Junior High School.
How diverse is Vidor Junior High School?
Vidor Junior High School reports a student body of 86% White, 11% Hispanic, 0% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Vidor Junior High School?
Vidor Junior High School is overseen by VIDOR ISD in Orange County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.