Summary:
The Clarendon Independent School District (Isd) contains a single middle school, Clarendon J H, which serves grades 6 through 8 and has a very small enrollment of just 69 students, offering a close-knit educational environment in a rural Texas community.
Clarendon J H has a mixed performance record that parents should carefully consider. The school’s greatest strength is in reading, where it consistently outperforms the state average, particularly in 8th grade where 69.57% of students were proficient in the 2025-2026 school year compared to the state’s 58.69%. However, the school experienced a dramatic decline in mathematics proficiency across all grade levels from the 2024-2025 to the 2025-2026 school year. For example, 7th grade math proficiency dropped from 58.33% to just 14.29%, and 8th grade math fell from 68.42% to 34.29%. This collapse in math scores caused the school’s overall ranking to plummet from the 80th percentile (4 stars) to the 47th percentile (2 stars) in a single year. On a positive note, the school maintains a 0.0% dropout rate and a very low student-teacher ratio of 9.9 to 1, which allows for individualized attention.
Key metrics show that spending per student is $11,304, and 49.28% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, indicating a moderate level of economic diversity. The school’s leadership urgently needs to investigate the root cause of the math decline, as this single factor has reversed years of strong performance. While reading and social studies (where 8th graders scored 42.11% proficiency in 2024-2025, well above the state average of 29.64%) remain bright spots, the volatility in math scores makes Clarendon J H a school with significant potential but also notable risk for families focused on consistent academic achievement.
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