BLOCKER MIDDLE

BLOCKER MIDDLE, a mid-tier middle school in TEXAS CITY, Texas, operated by TEXAS CITY ISD, works with 802 students, covering grades 7 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so BLOCKER MIDDLE sits 25% above that benchmark.

Within TEXAS CITY ISD, which oversees 15 schools and 7,711 students, BLOCKER MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, BLOCKER MIDDLE logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 23% White, 17% Black, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 26% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Galveston County's rate of about 57%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BLOCKER MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.8%, the actual is 36.0%, a residual of -5.8 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Galveston County) records that the typical household earns roughly $86,105 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Galveston County runs 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,767 students), of which BLOCKER MIDDLE is one.

The closest other public school is CALVIN VINCENT PRE-K HEAD START, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, BLOCKER MIDDLE comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.1%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BLOCKER MIDDLE has edged down 11%, going from 905 students in 2018 to 802 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 41% to 54% over that span.

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