ADAMS MIDDLE

ADAMS MIDDLE, a mid-tier intermediate school in ALICE, Texas, overseen by ALICE ISD, teaches 933 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 45% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

ADAMS MIDDLE is one of 6 schools operated by ALICE ISD, a district that educates 4,297 students overall.

Demographically, ADAMS MIDDLE reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (89%). The remainder looks like 11% White. By comparison, Jim Wells County as a whole is about 80% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, ADAMS MIDDLE has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting ADAMS MIDDLE higher than the state norm the norm. About 86% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, ADAMS MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.2%, the actual is 36.4%, a residual of +0.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Jim Wells County indicate median household income runs about $51,896, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 21%. Across Jim Wells County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,302 students), ADAMS MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is DUBOSE EL, roughly 0.4 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ADAMS MIDDLE at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 42.9%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ADAMS MIDDLE has climbed 28%, going from 731 students in 2018 to 933 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share decreased from 94% to 89%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 20.8:1 today.

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