HOUSTON MIDDLE

HOUSTON MIDDLE is one of the cozy middle schools in HOUSTON, Missouri, part of HOUSTON R-I, with 198 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 57% smaller than the state mean of about 461.

HOUSTON R-I comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,040 students; HOUSTON MIDDLE is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, HOUSTON MIDDLE shows that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest is composed of 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.0:1 average.

In the broader community, Texas County reports that median household earnings sit near $50,036, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. HOUSTON MIDDLE is one of 16 public schools in Texas County (combined enrollment of about 3,571 students).

Nearest neighbor: HOUSTON HIGH, around 0.0 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HOUSTON MIDDLE has edged down 12%, going from 226 students in 2018 to 198 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

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