Jones Middle School

Size

Jones Middle School is the 10th largest of Northside ISD's 22 middle schools; its 1,035 students are 1% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 2.9 miles away and have a median of 642 students, so Jones Middle School is larger than most of them.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 6 with 375 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 329, against an average of 345 per grade. This year grade 8 has 12% fewer students than grade 6 (329 against 375). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 82.4% of enrollment, a higher share than across Northside ISD (68.3%). White students are next, at 10.3%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

77.2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 49.7% across Northside ISD and a median of 65.6% for Texas middle schools. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Jones Middle School has 77.33 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 1,035 students would have about 71.9 teachers, so Jones Middle School has 5.4 more.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas middle schools (14.4).

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other middle school is Jubilee School of Innovation and Arts, 0.5 miles away in Jubilee Academies. There are 16 middle schools within 5 miles and 48 within 10 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.