BLEYL MIDDLE

BLEYL MIDDLE is a junior high of sizable scale in HOUSTON, Texas, one of the schools within CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD, caters to 1,322 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 106% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD comprises 92 schools with combined enrollment of 117,927 students; BLEYL MIDDLE is among them.

On demographics, BLEYL MIDDLE reports that 45% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 34% Black, 11% White, 7% Asian, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, BLEYL MIDDLE has 86 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Roughly 70% of students at BLEYL MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, BLEYL MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.2%, the actual is 45.3%, a residual of +2.1 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate median household income runs about $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which BLEYL MIDDLE is one.

The closest other public school is MATZKE EL, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BLEYL MIDDLE comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 46.7%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 14%: 1,535 students in 2018 compared to 1,322 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged up from 26% to 34% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 in 2025.

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