ANDREWS MIDDLE

ANDREWS MIDDLE is a middle school of large scale in ANDREWS, Texas, part of ANDREWS ISD, instructing 970 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 51% larger than typical.

Within ANDREWS ISD, which oversees 6 schools and 4,209 students, ANDREWS MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ANDREWS MIDDLE reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 71%. The remainder consists of 26% White. By comparison, Andrews County as a whole is about 58% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. About 54% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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, ANDREWS MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.5%; this one delivers 50.8%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Andrews County put median household earnings sit near $72,242, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. ANDREWS MIDDLE is one of 6 public schools in Andrews County (combined enrollment of about 4,209 students).

ANDREWS EDUCATION CENTER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around ANDREWS MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, ANDREWS MIDDLE comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 41.9%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Looking at the recent track record. ANDREWS MIDDLE's enrollment has rose 5% since 2018, when it stood at 924 (now 970). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 today.

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