Bruce JH

5 years of ratings

2021-22 is shown under the refreshed methodology TEA adopted in 2023, so it is comparable with later years. Under the original scoring it was rated B with 89 that year.

How this school's change over time is ranked

TEA publishes most measures for one year only, so a change ranking exists just where the same figure is published across years — the overall score, the five score domains, and per-student spending. This page does not yet state where Bruce JH itself places on these lists, only that the lists exist; open one to find this school's own row.

Texas schools

Where the score comes from

Texas builds the overall rating from the better of Student Achievement and School Progress, weighted 70%, plus Closing the Gaps at 30%. School Progress is itself the better of Academic Growth and Relative Performance. The 60, 70, 80 and 90 rules mark the letter-grade thresholds.

• Student Achievement80 B+5.0 vs similar · +0.8 vs region
• School Progress89 B+9.1 vs similar · +7.8 vs region
• Closing the Gaps74 C−2.0 vs similar · −2.3 vs region
• Academic Growth73 C+0.1 vs similar · +0.2 vs region
• Relative Performance89 B+10.7 vs similar · +8.9 vs region

• Bruce JH
• Similar student population (2,072)
• Region 07: Kilgore (352)

Closest to moving up: School Progress, 1 point below A in that domain — the nearest of the measures that count toward the overall rating.

TEA does not add the domains up. The overall score is the better of Student Achievement and School Progress at 70%, plus Closing the Gaps at 30%. For this school that better measure is School Progress (89), so Student Achievement (80) is published above but does not enter the overall score at all — gaining points there changes nothing until it passes 89.

Student outcomes

STAAR performance

• Approaches grade level
• Meets grade level
• Masters grade level
• Tick: Similar student population (2,072)

Percentage of tests at or above each level. Masters is a subset of Meets, which is a subset of Approaches. The tick on each bar marks the average for Similar student population (2,072 schools) — a comparison TEA does not publish.

Who this school serves

Placed after the results deliberately: this is context for reading them, not an explanation of them.

Students

430

Economically disadvantaged

73.5%+0.1 pts vs similar

English learners

6.0%−16.7 pts vs similar

Special education

14.2%−4.6 pts vs similar

Attendance

94.1%+0.4 pts vs similar

Chronically absent

20.5%+1.8 pts vs similar

Student demographics

• African American 12.1%
• Hispanic 23%
• White 55.1%
• American Indian 0.2%
• Asian 1.2%
• Two or More Races 8.4%

Spending per student

Compared against TEA's own peer group, which controls for size and student population, and against the state.

• Bruce JH
• TEA peer group
• Texas average

TEA's published file does not include peer-group spending for this entity, so no comparison is shown.

Not reported by TEA for this entity: peer.

Teachers

Average salary

$60,312−$6,264 vs similar

Teachers

31

Students per staff member

13.9

Teaching experience

• 1 to 5 years 17.7%
• 6 to 10 years 31.6%
• 11 to 20 years 29.4%
• 21 to 30 years 15.2%
• Over 30 years 6.1%

Where this school ranks best

Out of 100 rankings computed across every published metric and every comparison group, these are the placements that stand out. Press Copy for a citable sentence.

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  School Progress

  Upshur County · of the 22 that report this measure · tied with 2

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  Relative Performance

  Upshur County · of the 22 that report this measure · tied with 2

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• 7of 22

  Reading — Masters

  Upshur County · of the 22 that report this measure · tied with 1

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  Overall score

  Upshur County · of the 23 that report this measure · tied with 2

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• 8of 13

  Social Studies — Masters

  Upshur County · of the 13 that report this measure

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• 9of 22

  Reading — Meets

  Upshur County · of the 22 that report this measure

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• 9of 13

  Social Studies — Meets

  Upshur County · of the 13 that report this measure

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  All Subjects — Masters

  Upshur County · of the 22 that report this measure · tied with 1

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• 10of 20

  Science — Approaches

  Upshur County · of the 20 that report this measure · tied with 1

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• 10of 13

  Social Studies — Approaches

  Upshur County · of the 13 that report this measure

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• 4of 22

  Reading — Approaches

  Upshur County · of the 22 that report this measure · tied with 3

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These are selected high placements, not a summary. Every figure above this section is the full picture, including where this campus ranks poorly. Each statement below states its cohort and its denominator so it can be checked — a rank without an n is a boast, not a fact. Ties are shown because a shared ceiling is not a sole first place. Every ranking this site publishes, including the ones no school would put in a press release.

Where this comes from

Every figure on this page comes from data the Texas Education Agency publishes at txschools.gov, fetched 15 August 2026 and archived with a checksum so each number stays traceable to the bytes TEA served.

Download the full dataset · this campus's district

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