Spring Hill J H, Longview TX - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Spring Hill J H

Spring Hill Junior High serves students in grades six through eight in Longview, a blue-collar town in East Texas anchored by healthcare, manufacturing, chemicals, rail, and a solid educational base. The school sits within Spring Hill ISD, a district that recently faced a significant fiscal inflection.

In November 2025, Spring Hill ISD voters rejected all four ballot measures, including both a proposed maintenance-and-operations tax increase and a bond package. The defeat means the district is now operating on a deficit budget funded from reserves, leaving facility renovations and operational gaps unaddressed. The bond package had proposed renovating the junior high school building, among other priorities. This financial posture is a concrete factor families should weigh when considering the school's near-term resource environment.

On academics, the school shows mixed momentum across tested areas. English language arts is relatively strong, with a majority of students in each grade meeting or exceeding proficiency: sixth graders posted proficiency in the middle range, seventh graders slightly lower, and eighth graders at a solid rate. Mathematics tells a different story. Sixth and seventh grade proficiency runs well below half, a meaningful gap. Eighth grade rebounds to a stronger level, suggesting either genuine growth across the three-year span or a cohort difference worth exploring directly with the school.

Science proficiency in eighth grade sits below the ELA level and noticeably below the state testing landscape in raw terms. Social studies proficiency in eighth grade is the school's weakest area, with substantially fewer students meeting the threshold. The school operates above the midpoint among Gregg County school districts in overall proficiency, a position that reflects the range of performance across its subjects and grades.

The student body is roughly evenly split between white and Hispanic students, with smaller shares of Black, multiracial, and Asian students. A substantial proportion of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a working-class enrollment base. The school is about average size for a junior high serving its grade band.

A parent or resident considering Spring Hill should take stock of two realities in tandem. The school offers a traditional junior high pathway with state assessments across multiple subjects. Its performance in ELA provides grounding; its mathematics numbers in sixth and seventh grade, and particularly its social studies results, suggest areas where a student or family might want to ask directly how the school supports remediation or how teachers address the specific skills gaps the state tests measure. The district's current deficit budget and failed bond vote mean that facility improvements and new resources will not be arriving soon. For families whose students are tracking below proficiency, asking about intervention structures and whether the school has capacity to serve them is practical and warranted.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 644%

School 44% · District 44%

▲ 10 pts above state median

Grade 739%

School 39% · District 39%

▲ 12 pts above state median

Grade 862%

School 62% · District 62%

▲ 20 pts above state median

English language arts

Grade 670%

School 70% · District 70%

▲ 18 pts above state median

Grade 767%

School 67% · District 67%

▲ 18 pts above state median

Grade 875%

School 75% · District 75%

▲ 20 pts above state median · ▲ 9 pts above county median

Science

Grade 859%

School 59% · District 59%

▲ 17 pts above state median · ▲ 10 pts above county median

Social studies

Grade 833%

School 33% · District 33%

▲ 9 pts above state median · ▲ 3 pts above county median

This schoolSPRING HILL 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 6Lower-income50%Higher-income88%38 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income55%Higher-income76%21 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income66%Higher-income83%17 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 6Lower-income29%Higher-income58%29 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income33%Higher-income45%12 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income45%Higher-income74%29 pp gap