Hooks J H, Hooks TX - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Hooks J H

Hooks Junior High serves fifth through eighth graders in Hooks ISD, a small district in eastern Bowie County sitting roughly between Texarkana and New Boston. The school is a conventional public school, not a charter or magnet, and its enrollment is modest for a grade five through eight building.

The town itself is a quiet, majority-homeowner community within the Texarkana metropolitan area, though it operates at a noticeably smaller scale than that label might suggest. Publicly reported accounts describe a suburban-rural texture, with everyday stops like Sonic and Dairy Queen on Main Street and church life as a social anchor. The Red River Army Depot, a large military maintenance facility in Bowie County just south of town, is the dominant regional employer. Population has trended downward over recent decades, and the local housing market is modest and well below state and national medians, making it one of the more affordable entry points in Texas for families buying a home. A recently approved district bond package has funded new classroom buildings and facility improvements at the junior high among other campuses, with construction phased through 2024 and 2025, so the physical environment students encounter is in the process of being updated.

On state STAAR assessments, the picture at Hooks Junior High is mixed across subjects and grades. Reading and language arts is the clearest strength: proficiency rates across the four tested grade levels run solidly, with eighth grade reading reaching the upper range of what many small rural schools produce. Math shows more variability. Sixth grade math proficiency is appreciably higher than fifth or seventh grade, and eighth grade falls in between; a parent with a student entering fifth or seventh grade may want to ask the school directly about how it identifies and supports students who fall behind in math. Science proficiency, tested in fifth and eighth grade, sits in a modest range, and eighth grade social studies proficiency is on the lower end. Looking at the school's position relative to districts in Bowie County, its overall proficiency index lands above the midpoint among the county's districts, which provides some useful local context: this is not the highest-performing school in the county but it is not at the bottom either.

Texas's STAAR framework uses three performance levels: approaches, meets, and masters grade level. The broad picture here is that the large majority of students reach the approaches threshold across all subjects, which means most are engaging with grade-level content at a foundational level. The share reaching the meets standard, the middle tier, sits around half of students across subjects, and the share reaching masters, the highest level, is relatively thin. That pattern is common in rural Texas schools serving high proportions of economically disadvantaged students, and a substantial share of Hooks Junior High students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Only one year of data is available in the current payload, so trend direction cannot be assessed.

Demographic data for English learner and special education populations was not reported in the data available here, so those dimensions of the school's support picture are a gap worth raising directly with the school if they are relevant to your student.

There is no graduation rate for Hooks Junior High because it does not serve high school grades. Advanced coursework offerings, dual credit, and other program data were not available in the data provided.

For a family relocating to Hooks or already in the district, this is a small-town school in the middle of a physical renovation, with reading results that hold up reasonably well and math and science results that warrant a closer conversation, particularly around how the school supports students who need additional reinforcement before they reach high school.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 533%

School 33% · District 33%

▼ 8 pts below state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

Grade 662%

School 62% · District 62%

▲ 28 pts above state median · ▲ 26 pts above county median

Grade 739%

School 39% · District 39%

▲ 12 pts above state median · ▲ 6 pts above county median

Grade 846%

School 46% · District 46%

▲ 4 pts above state median · ▼ 2 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 566%

School 66% · District 66%

▲ 12 pts above state median · ▲ 11 pts above county median

Grade 669%

School 69% · District 69%

▲ 17 pts above state median · ▲ 12 pts above county median

Grade 749%

School 49% · District 49%

even with state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

Grade 875%

School 75% · District 75%

▲ 20 pts above state median · ▲ 4 pts above county median

Science

Grade 536%

School 36% · District 36%

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▲ 18 pts above county median

Grade 849%

School 49% · District 49%

▲ 7 pts above state median · even with county median

Social studies

Grade 830%

School 30% · District 30%

▲ 6 pts above state median · even with county median

This schoolHOOKS ISD, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 5Lower-income60%Higher-income70%10 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income58%Higher-income89%31 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income42%Higher-income56%14 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income63%Higher-income91%28 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 5Lower-income24%Higher-income39%15 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income55%Higher-income74%19 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income29%Higher-income50%21 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income46%Higher-income46%0 pp gap