Public school / Middle
Shackelford J H
Arlington, Texas
- NCES ID
- 480870000261
- District
- Arlington ISD
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Shackelford J H is a public middle school in Arlington, Texas, run by Arlington ISD. It enrols 640 students — the 23402nd largest of 9,692 public schools in Texas.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
640
Teachers
46.0
Students per teacher
13.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
73.1%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Arlington ISD
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Martin H S3,789 students
- 2Sam Houston H S3,370 students
- 3Lamar H S2,546 students
- 4Arlington H S2,538 students
- 5Bowie H S2,391 students
- 6Seguin H S1,529 students
- 7Workman J H1,360 students
- 8Peach El977 students
- Enrollment+23.1%
- Teachers+31.4%
- Students per teacher−4.8%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+3.2%
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory