Smithville 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 C with 74 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 Smithville 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 Achievement74 C−7.7 vs similar · −3.6 vs region
• School Progress72 C−9.6 vs similar · −6.8 vs region
• Closing the Gaps72 C−7.4 vs similar · −5.2 vs region
• Academic Growth72 C−3.9 vs similar · −4.0 vs region
• Relative Performance66 D−13.3 vs similar · −5.9 vs region

• Smithville JH
• Similar student population (1,712)
• Region 13: Austin (519)

Closest to moving up: Student Achievement, 6 points below B 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 Student Achievement (74), so School Progress (72) is published above but does not enter the overall score at all — gaining points there changes nothing until it passes 74.

Student outcomes

STAAR performance

• Approaches grade level
• Meets grade level
• Masters grade level
• Tick: Similar student population (1,712)

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 (1,712 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

432

Economically disadvantaged

50.2%−0.6 pts vs similar

English learners

12.7%−0.4 pts vs similar

Special education

24.3%+5.5 pts vs similar

Attendance

93.1%−1.4 pts vs similar

Chronically absent

21.8%+7.4 pts vs similar

Student demographics

• African American 5.3%
• Hispanic 38.2%
• White 51.4%
• American Indian 0.2%
• Asian 0.5%
• Two or More Races 4.4%

Spending per student

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

• Smithville 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

$60,039−$6,858 vs similar

Teachers

23

Students per staff member

18.4

Teaching experience

• Beginning 12.8%
• 1 to 5 years 17.1%
• 6 to 10 years 12.4%
• 11 to 20 years 31.6%
• 21 to 30 years 26.1%

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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  Science — Masters

  Bastrop County · of the 28 that report this measure · tied with 1

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  Science — Meets

  Bastrop County · of the 28 that report this measure

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• 5of 31

  Reading — Masters

  Bastrop County · of the 31 that report this measure · tied with 1

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  Reading — Meets

  Bastrop County · of the 31 that report this measure

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  All Subjects — Meets

  Bastrop County · of the 31 that report this measure · tied with 1

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  All Subjects — Masters

  Bastrop County · of the 31 that report this measure

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• 7of 31

  Reading — Approaches

  Bastrop County · of the 31 that report this measure · tied with 1

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• 8of 31

  Math — Approaches

  Bastrop County · of the 31 that report this measure

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• 8of 31

  Math — Masters

  Bastrop County · of the 31 that report this measure · tied with 1

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• 8of 28

  Science — Approaches

  Bastrop County · of the 28 that report this measure

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• 8of 12

  Social Studies — Meets

  Bastrop County · of the 12 that report this measure

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  Social Studies — Masters

  Bastrop County · of the 12 that report this measure

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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

Single-file records are pre-built for districts only, so there is no per-campus CSV to link here — 9,086 entities in two formats is 18,172 assets, on top of everything else this site publishes, and that is past the 20,000-asset limit this site is published under. This campus is a row in the bulk files on the download page, keyed by its TEA id 011904041.