ARAGON MIDDLE

ARAGON MIDDLE is a middle-grades school of substantial scale in HOUSTON, Texas, run under CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD, serveing 1,424 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so ARAGON MIDDLE sits 121% larger than that benchmark.

CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD runs 92 schools in total, collectively educating 117,927 students. ARAGON MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ARAGON MIDDLE logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 46%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 24% White, 17% Black, 9% Asian, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, ARAGON MIDDLE shows 83 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Around 54% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, ARAGON MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.1%; this one delivers 59.7%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Harris County put median household income runs about $74,983, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. ARAGON MIDDLE is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

Nearest neighbor: BIRKES EL, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ARAGON MIDDLE ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 54.4%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. ARAGON MIDDLE's enrollment has edged down 11% since 2018, when it stood at 1,603 (now 1,424). The White share of enrollment shrank from 33% to 24% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 today.

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