A C BLUNT MIDDLE

A C BLUNT MIDDLE, a modestly sized junior high in ARANSAS PASS, Texas, run under ARANSAS PASS ISD, works with 382 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 41% leaner than the state mean of about 643.

ARANSAS PASS ISD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,624 students; A C BLUNT MIDDLE is among them.

Demographically, A C BLUNT MIDDLE logs that 67% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school lists 28% White, 2% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, San Patricio County as a whole is about 57% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, A C BLUNT MIDDLE has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.9:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 70% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, A C BLUNT MIDDLE falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 43.2%; this one comes in at 28.2%, -15.0 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, census data for San Patricio County shows the typical household earns roughly $69,704 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across San Patricio County's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,920 students), A C BLUNT MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is CHARLIE MARSHALL EL, roughly 0.2 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), A C BLUNT MIDDLE ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 46.5%.

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

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at A C BLUNT MIDDLE has edged up 10%, going from 348 students in 2018 to 382 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 34% to 28% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 in 2025.

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