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ARTHUR L DAVILA MIDDLE
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ARTHUR L DAVILA MIDDLE
ARTHUR L DAVILA MIDDLE is a big middle-grades school in BRYAN, Texas, overseen by BRYAN ISD. The school works with 983 students in grades 7 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so ARTHUR L DAVILA MIDDLE sits 53% larger than that benchmark.
BRYAN ISD runs 26 schools in total, collectively educating 16,044 students. ARTHUR L DAVILA MIDDLE is one of those campuses.
Demographically, ARTHUR L DAVILA MIDDLE reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 71% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 17% Black, 10% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.
On the resource side, The school employs 69 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.3:1. The state averages about 14.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Brazos County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, ARTHUR L DAVILA MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.7%, the actual is 32.8%, a residual of -2.9 points.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Brazos County put median household earnings sit near $58,553, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Brazos County's 53 public schools (combined enrollment of about 32,430 students), ARTHUR L DAVILA MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.
NAVARRO EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ARTHUR L DAVILA MIDDLE ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 36.1%.
ARTHUR L DAVILA MIDDLE operates from an urban location.
Looking at the recent track record. ARTHUR L DAVILA MIDDLE's enrollment has decreased 6% since 2018, when it stood at 1,049 (now 983). Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 57% to 71%. Class-load math has grew: from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.
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