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Wharton JH

Wharton County · Region 03: Victoria · 339 students

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Current score
58/1002025-26
Change
−1 ptssince 2021-22
Score vs similar economic context
−21.0 ptsvs 79 average · 2,011 rated schools serving a similar economic context
Similar economic-disadvantage rate placement
1,954 of 2,011tied with 7 others
F58

At a glance

Under TEA’s current rules, the available rating history is moving down; under the rules in force back then it scored 59 in 2021-22. The current score is below the 79 average for 2,011 rated schools serving a similar economic context.

Evidence worth noticing

Strengths and momentum

Selected positive signals, not a summary of performance. The same rules choose them on every page: only the latest one-year gain, results meaningfully better than the currently selected comparison with broad reporting, and distinctive top-three placements. Demographics, staffing and spending cannot become academic “wins.” The overall rating and the full results below remain the complete picture for this school.

Read the full rating context and placement

Wharton JH is rated F by TEA, scoring 58 out of 100 for 2025-26 — below the 79 average for 2,011 rated schools serving a similar economic context. It is down 1 point since 2021-22.

Ranks 1,954th of 2,011 rated schools serving a similar economic context (tied with 7 others).

1 consecutive year rated unacceptable.

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  1. Overview
  2. Official improvement and transfer notices
  3. 5 years of ratings
  4. Where the score comes from
  5. Student outcomes
  6. Who this school serves
  7. Student counts behind the percentages
  8. Enrollment over time
  9. Discipline and removal from class
  10. Spending per student
  11. Teachers and actual class size
  12. Where this school ranks best
  13. Where this comes from

Official improvement and transfer notices

Official state and federal designations can carry support, reporting requirements or a family transfer option that a single A–F rating does not explain.

2026 federal improvement status

Comprehensive Support and Improvement

Official support label: Comprehensive Identified

Identification reason: CSI Low Performance

TEA track year 1 · Title I campus

Open the official TEA list and methodology

Schools identified for improvement

This school
Listed
Selected comparison
29.7%

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,011 rated schools reporting

Schools on the PEG list

This school
Not listed
Selected comparison
4.0%

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,011 rated schools reporting

Selected comparison percentages are the share of reporting schools in that group found on each dated list. They are neutral prevalence context; changing the comparison never changes this school's official status.

These are dated TEA statuses, fetched 24 August 2026; they are not added to or subtracted from this site's rating.

5 years of ratings

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Compare against
9080706050 Similar economic-disadvantage rateTexas averageWharton JH 5972627658 2021-222022-232023-242024-252025-26

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 Not Rated with 59 that year.

Comparison lines follow the current rated cohort backward through time. The table gives the number in that fixed cohort that reported a score each year; it can be smaller than cohort membership.

View the yearly scores and comparisons
Rating history with comparisons
YearRatingScoreSelected comparisonSimilar economic-disadvantage rateStateTexas average
2025-26F5879.0 2,011 reporting81.3 7,646 reporting
2024-25C7678.8 1,993 reporting81.2 7,554 reporting
2023-24D6276.7 1,977 reporting78.9 7,466 reporting
2022-23C7277.2 1,952 reporting79.1 7,377 reporting
2021-22F5982.0 1,933 reporting83.7 7,283 reporting

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 Achievement62 D−13.8 vs similar economic context · 1,886 reporting
  • School Progress64 D−16.1 vs similar economic context · 1,879 reporting
  • Closing the Gaps45 F−31.2 vs similar economic context · 1,868 reporting
  • Academic Growth64 D−9.1 vs similar economic context · 1,824 reporting
  • Relative Performance63 D−15.5 vs similar economic context · 1,879 reporting
  • Wharton JH
  • Similar economic-disadvantage rate (2,011 in cohort)
Domain scores
DomainScoreGradePoints to next grade
Student Achievement62D8
School Progress64D6
Closing the Gaps45F15
Academic Growth64D6
Relative Performance63D7

Closest to moving up: School Progress, 6 points below C 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 (64), so Student Achievement (62) is published above but does not enter the overall score at all — gaining points there changes nothing until it passes 64.

Student outcomes

STAAR performance

All Subjects

  • Approaches grade level57%−15 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,886 reporting
  • Meets grade level31%−15 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,886 reporting
  • Masters grade level11%−7 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,886 reporting
Reading3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level64%−10 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,884 reporting
  • Meets grade level40%−11 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,884 reporting
  • Masters grade level16%−4 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,884 reporting
Math3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level53%−16 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,876 reporting
  • Meets grade level27%−13 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,876 reporting
  • Masters grade level12%−3 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,876 reporting
Science3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level54%−18 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,733 reporting
  • Meets grade level25%−18 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,733 reporting
  • Masters grade level6%−13 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,733 reporting
Social Studies3 performance levels
  • Approaches grade level52%−20 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 876 reporting
  • Meets grade level23%−21 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 876 reporting
  • Masters grade level4%−15 vs Similar economic-disadvantage rate · 876 reporting
  • Approaches grade level
  • Meets grade level
  • Masters grade level
  • Tick: Similar economic-disadvantage rate (2,011 in cohort)

Percentage of tests at or above each level. Masters is a subset of Meets, which is a subset of Approaches. The selected-comparison tick on each bar marks the average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate — a comparison TEA does not publish.

Counts in the comparison controls describe full cohort membership, not the denominator of every average. Each average uses only schools for which TEA reported that measure; metric-specific reporting counts are shown on the STAAR, graduation and CCMR rows and may vary.

Who this school serves

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

Students
339
Economically disadvantaged
70.8%±0.0 pts vs similar economic context
English learners
17.4%−3.6 pts vs similar economic context
Special education
20.9%+2.1 pts vs similar economic context
Attendance
93.8%−0.1 pts vs similar economic context
Chronically absent
18.3%+0.4 pts vs similar economic context

Student demographics

Wharton JH

African American: 22.7%Hispanic: 62.5%White: 11.2%Asian: 0.6%Pacific Islander: 0.3%Two or More Races: 2.7%
  • African American 22.7%
  • Hispanic 62.5%
  • White 11.2%
  • Asian 0.6%
  • Pacific Islander 0.3%
  • Two or More Races 2.7%

Selected comparison average For schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,011 reporting for every category shown · 2,011 in full cohort

African American: 12.5%Hispanic: 57.4%White: 24.2%American Indian: 0.3%Asian: 2%Pacific Islander: 0.2%Two or More Races: 3.4%
  • African American 12.5%
  • Hispanic 57.4%
  • White 24.2%
  • American Indian 0.3%
  • Asian 2%
  • Pacific Islander 0.2%
  • Two or More Races 3.4%

Student counts behind the percentages

Context only. These counts are not rankings, comparisons, or judgments about school quality.

Students in this TEA accountability summary
339
Economically disadvantaged students
240
Emergent bilingual students
59
Special education students
71

Campus mobility · 2024–25

Mobile students
40
Students in TEA mobility denominator
353
TEA-published mobility rate
11.3%

The mobility count and rate use TEA’s separate 2024–25 campus denominator shown above, not current enrollment. This site does not recalculate a missing rate.

The first figure is TEA’s student count for this accountability summary. It is a separate publication from the fall PEIMS enrollment shown above and can differ; this site does not substitute one for the other. Counts come from TEA’s 2025-26 accountability summary, fetched 29 August 2026. A reported zero is shown as 0. Small-number and complementary masks, unavailable values, and blank not-reported fields stay separate and are never estimated. TEA masking definitions.

Enrollment over time

TEA-reported student enrollment for each available school year. Enrollment growth or decline is not a measure of school quality.

TEA reported 339 students in 2025–26, an increase of 15 (4.6%) from 2024–25.

Latest enrollment
339

2025–26

Change from 2024–25
+15

Increase · +4.6%

Change since 2021–22
−107

Decrease · −24.0%

Enrollment in 2025–26

This school
339
Selected comparison
634.7

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,975 rated schools reporting

Student enrollment by school year for Wharton JH
School yearStudents enrolledWharton JHChange from previous school yearAverage enrollmentselected comparison
2021–22 446 First available year 646.3
2022–23 369 Decrease of 77 (17.3%) 653
2023–24 355 Decrease of 14 (3.8%) 651.3
2024–25 324 Decrease of 31 (8.7%) 649.9
2025–26 339 Increase of 15 (4.6%) 634.7

The selected comparison column is the average enrollment among reporting schools in that group. It changes with the comparison control; this school's own counts do not.

Source: TEA PEIMS Student Program and Special Populations Reports, fetched 24 August 2026. TEA reports these counts from its fall student snapshot; changes compare adjacent reported school years.

These counts show how enrollment changed, not why. Attendance-zone changes, school openings or closures, grade reconfigurations, transfers and population shifts can affect the total.

Discipline and removal from class

TEA’s annual student and action counts, kept separate and divided only by the matching full-year enrollment. These figures describe removals from instruction, not a simple safe-or-unsafe score.

Students in TEA’s all-discipline count
120

34.0% of cumulative year-end enrollment

Disciplinary actions
351

99.43 per 100 students

Cumulative year-end enrollment
353

2024–25

Share of students · 2024–25

This school
34.0%
Selected comparison
13.0%

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,539 rated schools reporting

+21.0 pts vs similar economic context

Actions per 100 students · 2024–25

This school
99.43
Selected comparison
30.8

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,648 rated schools reporting

+68.6 vs similar economic context
TEA all-discipline student and action counts by school year for Wharton JH
School yearCumulative enrollmentStudentsall disciplineStudents% of enrollmentActionsall disciplineActionsper 100 studentsStudentsselected comparison average %Actionsselected comparison average per 100
2020–21 464 141 30.4% 511 110.13 9.5% 19
2021–22 465 218 46.9% 786 169.03 13.0% 30.5
2022–23 398 185 46.5% 642 161.31 13.5% 32.5
2023–24 389 153 39.3% 453 116.45 13.3% 32.3
2024–25 353 120 34.0% 351 99.43 13.0% 30.8
See 2024–25 discipline categories
TEA discipline categories for Wharton JH in 2024–25
CategoryStudentsStudents% of enrollmentActionsActionsper 100 studentsStudentsselected comparison average %Actionsselected comparison average per 100
All discipline 120 34.0% 351 99.43 13.0% 30.8
In-school suspensions 99 28.1% 207 58.64 11.6% 23.3
Out-of-school suspensions 67 19.0% 123 34.84 7.4% 11.1
DAEP placements 19 5.4% 21 5.95 5.2% 6.3
Mandatory DAEP placements Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
Discretionary DAEP placements Suppressed — Suppressed — — —
JJAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Mandatory JJAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Discretionary JJAEP placements Not reported — Not reported — — —
Expulsions Not reported — Not reported — — —
Mandatory expulsions Not reported — Not reported — — —
Discretionary expulsions Not reported — Not reported — — —

Selected comparisons use rates, not raw counts, so differently sized schools can be read on the same basis. Each average uses only group members for which TEA reported that rate; this school's own counts and rates remain fixed.

Students, actions and incidents are different units. One student can receive multiple actions. The categories overlap, so they must not be added together. Rates use TEA's matching cumulative year-end enrollment, not the October enrollment shown elsewhere on this page.

Source: TEA Discipline Reports, fetched 24 August 2026. Suppressed values stay unavailable rather than being estimated. Use 2020–21 cautiously because remote instruction during the pandemic changed students' exposure to in-person discipline. TEA consolidated its separate action-group reports into this product in 2024–25; this trend uses only the stable “All discipline” heading.

Spending per student

The campus and its parent district stay fixed while the selected same-sector txschools.net comparison changes with the page-wide control. TEA's own peer group and statewide reference remain visible as separately published, fixed TEA references.

$5k$16k$27k20182020202220242025
  • Wharton JH
  • Parent district: Wharton ISD
  • Texas average
  • Selected comparison: Similar economic-disadvantage rate

Spending per student · 2025

This school
$11,669
Selected comparison
$13,190

average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,992 rated schools reporting

−$1,521 vs similar economic context

For 2025, TEA reported $11,669 per student for this campus, $21,670 per student for its parent district, Wharton ISD, $18,972 per student for the Texas average.

Not reported in this TEA campus finance record: TEA peer group.

View yearly spending figures
Spending per student by year
YearWharton JHParent district: Wharton ISDTexas averageSelected comparison averageReportingselected comparison
2018$8,681$14,144$13,054$8,039 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,855 rated schools reporting
2019$7,387$15,161$13,108$8,202 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,874 rated schools reporting
2020$7,887$14,150$14,058$8,742 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,896 rated schools reporting
2021$5,687$13,550$14,797$9,250 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,910 rated schools reporting
2022$11,918$15,332$15,708$10,511 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,934 rated schools reporting
2023$26,061$25,817$16,792$11,220 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,954 rated schools reporting
2024$9,706$25,969$18,125$12,420 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,976 rated schools reporting
2025$11,669$21,670$18,972$13,190 average for schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 1,992 rated schools reporting

The selected-comparison reporting count is year-specific and can vary across the table. Dollar amounts are shown as TEA published them and are not adjusted for inflation.

Teachers and actual class size

Average salary
$62,592−$3,856 vs similar economic context
Teachers
24−18.6 vs similar economic context
Students per staff member
13.9−0.1 vs similar economic context

Teaching experience

Wharton JH

Beginning: 11.5%1 to 5 years: 45.1%6 to 10 years: 13.5%11 to 20 years: 20.5%21 to 30 years: 9.4%
  • Beginning 11.5%
  • 1 to 5 years 45.1%
  • 6 to 10 years 13.5%
  • 11 to 20 years 20.5%
  • 21 to 30 years 9.4%

Selected comparison average For schools with a similar economic-disadvantage rate · 2,011 reporting for every category shown · 2,011 in full cohort

Beginning: 6.6%1 to 5 years: 27.1%6 to 10 years: 18.9%11 to 20 years: 27.4%21 to 30 years: 15.4%Over 30 years: 3.9%
  • Beginning 6.6%
  • 1 to 5 years 27.1%
  • 6 to 10 years 18.9%
  • 11 to 20 years 27.4%
  • 21 to 30 years 15.4%
  • Over 30 years 3.9%

Average students in a class

TEA average class size by grade or subject for Wharton JH in 2024–25
Grade or subjectAverage students per classWharton JH · 2024–25Average students per classselected comparison
Grade 614.617.8
Secondary English11.815.2
Secondary languages other than English9.817.9
Secondary math13.416.1
Secondary science23.117.5
Secondary social studies21.117.4

These are TEA's actual class-size averages for the grade or subject shown, not the student-to-teacher ratio. TEA reported 6 of 12 categories for this campus; the categories are not combined into a made-up campus-wide average. Each selected comparison average uses only schools reporting that same grade or subject.

Source: TEA Texas Academic Performance Reports, fetched 24 August 2026.

Where this school ranks best

Out of 120 rankings computed across every published metric and every available comparison group, these are all the measures that meet this site’s distinctive-placement threshold. The list does not change when you change Compare against. Each measure appears once, using its strongest placement. Press Copy for a citable sentence.

#4–10 rankings

Fourth- through tenth-place results

7 measures

  • 4of 18

    Per-student spending

    Wharton County · of the 18 that report this measure

  • 6of 16

    Math — Masters

    Wharton County · of the 16 that report this measure · tied with 1

  • 9of 16

    Reading — Masters

    Wharton County · of the 16 that report this measure

  • 9of 15

    Academic Growth

    Wharton County · of the 15 that report this measure · tied with 1

  • 9of 10

    Social Studies — Approaches

    Wharton County · of the 10 that report this measure

  • 10of 10

    Social Studies — Meets

    Wharton County · of the 10 that report this measure

  • 10of 10

    Social Studies — Masters

    Wharton County · of the 10 that report this measure

These are selected high placements, not a summary. Every figure above this section is the full picture, including where this school ranks poorly. Each measure appears once here, using its strongest qualifying placement across all available comparison groups. Very large ties are left out because they do not distinguish this school; any tie that does appear is labeled. Every ranking this site publishes, including the ones no school would put in a press release.

Where this comes from

The Texas Education Agency publishes the underlying accountability reports and data downloads. Ratings, outcomes, demographics, staffing and finance on this page come from TEA data available through txschools.gov, fetched 15 August 2026. TEA’s Reports and Data Portal links the official bulk files. Enrollment history comes from TEA's PEIMS Student Program and Special Populations reports, fetched 24 August 2026. The student-count context comes from TEA’s bulk accountability summary, fetched 29 August 2026; TEA’s masking definitions explain withheld values. The dated notice, staffing, discipline, transfer, community and postsecondary sections cite their separate TEA, Census or THECB publication in place. Every archived source carries checksums so each number stays traceable to the bytes the public agency served.

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Single-file records are pre-built for district-level records only, so there is no per-campus CSV to link here. Producing both formats for every entity would consume most of the 20,000-asset deployment limit before pages and shared data are counted. This campus is a row in the bulk files on the download page, keyed by its TEA id 241904042.