The top reported proficiency rate is 56% in English language arts. The lowest is 33% in Social studies.
Original Research by School Decision on James Coble Middle
James Coble Middle School serves seventh and eighth graders in the Mansfield ISD portion of Arlington, Texas, sitting within Tarrant County's large and varied suburban landscape. It is a regular public school with no charter or magnet designation.
The school draws a diverse student body. Black students make up the largest share of enrollment, followed by Hispanic and Asian students, with smaller proportions of white and multiracial students. A substantial majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places Coble among schools serving a higher share of economically disadvantaged families. Data on English learners and students with IEPs was not available in this profile.
On the Texas STAAR assessment, Coble's results for the most recent school year show a mixed picture. Reading and language arts is the clearest relative strength: around half or more of students in both seventh and eighth grade reached the proficient-or-above threshold, and a strong majority met the "approaches grade level" standard. Math proficiency sits in the low-to-mid forties for eighth grade and somewhat lower for seventh, which is a meaningful gap from the ELA results and worth a parent asking the school about directly. Science proficiency for eighth graders lands in the mid-forties, while social studies proficiency is the softest result across the tested subjects. The share of students reaching the highest performance tier, "masters grade level," is modest across all subjects. Placed against the other districts in Tarrant County, Coble's overall proficiency index sits above the midpoint of that group, which is a genuinely useful data point in a county that includes both high-performing suburban districts and lower-performing urban ones. Trend data spans only a single year in this profile, so it is not possible to say whether results are improving, holding, or declining.
Because Coble serves only grades seven and eight, there is no graduation rate to report; that measure belongs to the high school level. The school feeds into Mansfield ISD's high school pathway, and families thinking about long-term academic trajectory may want to look at the district's high school performance data separately.
Extracurricular offerings are modest but span several interests. Publicly reported program data lists chess, drama, a game club, Lego Robotics, a more advanced robotics program, a silent reading club, and student council. The robotics presence in particular gives students an early entry point into project-based STEM work.
On the district side, Mansfield ISD voters approved a substantial bond package in May 2024 covering facility renovations across HVAC, roofing, electrical, and plumbing systems, new instructional technology, weapons-detection systems, and a new pre-K center. Propositions tied to stadium and athletic complex upgrades did not pass. The district publicly stated the approved bond would not raise the tax rate. A separate earlier vote restructured how the tax rate is divided between debt and operating funds, generating additional annual revenue for instruction and student programs without changing the total rate. Separately, the district's per-dollar tax rate has declined for several consecutive years, though rising property appraisals mean many homeowners have still seen higher bills overall. For a family weighing a home purchase in this area, that dynamic is worth factoring in.
Home values in the zip code around Coble are moderately below the national median and slightly above the Texas state figure as of the most recent available data, with rents ticking up slightly year over year and home values edging down. The rent-to-income ratio sits at a level that national affordability benchmarks would characterize as manageable but not comfortable, and the estimated monthly mortgage at current rates is meaningful for families at median income levels.
The locale brief for Arlington returned no usable detail before the search budget was exhausted, so specifics about the immediate neighborhood, walkability, or nearby employers are not available here.
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