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VIDOR 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 57 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 47 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 37 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 52% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About VIDOR J H
VIDOR J H operates as a middle-of-the-pack middle-grades school in VIDOR, Texas, overseen by VIDOR ISD. Current enrollment sits at 612 students spanning grades 7 through 8.
Across the 7 schools in VIDOR ISD (4,165 students total), VIDOR J H accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, VIDOR J H reports that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 11% Hispanic.
On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
After controlling for student poverty, VIDOR J H sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.0%; this one delivers 51.8%.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Orange County) logs that median household income runs about $72,104, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Orange County's 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,100 students), VIDOR J H is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is VIDOR JJAEP, roughly 0.8 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, VIDOR J H comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 36.0%.
VIDOR J H operates from a bedroom-community location.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 3%: 634 students in 2018 compared to 612 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 91% to 86% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 today.
In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Orange County at a glance
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