YORKTOWN 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 53 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 28 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 33 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 28 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 51% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About YORKTOWN J H
YORKTOWN J H is one of the minimally staffed intermediate schools in YORKTOWN, Texas, operated by YORKTOWN ISD, with 125 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 81% leaner than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.
YORKTOWN ISD runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 574 students. YORKTOWN J H is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, YORKTOWN J H lists that 47% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 47% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 59% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, YORKTOWN J H has 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting YORKTOWN J H tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 53% of students at YORKTOWN J H qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
After controlling for student poverty, YORKTOWN J H falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 50.8%; this one comes in at 35.3%, -15.5 points off the demographic line.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for DeWitt County indicate median household earnings sit near $63,730, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, DeWitt County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,297 students), of which YORKTOWN J H is one.
The closest other public school is YORKTOWN H S, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), YORKTOWN J H ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 48.1%.
The campus sits in an outlying setting.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at YORKTOWN J H has edged up 13%, going from 111 students in 2018 to 125 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked down from 58% to 47%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 10.4:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 today.
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