BOBBY SHAW MIDDLE

BOBBY SHAW MIDDLE operates as a mid-tier junior high in PASADENA, Texas, part of PASADENA ISD. Current enrollment sits at 655 students spanning grades 5 through 6.

PASADENA ISD comprises 67 schools with combined enrollment of 46,491 students; BOBBY SHAW MIDDLE is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BOBBY SHAW MIDDLE logs that 91% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 4% White, 4% Black. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BOBBY SHAW MIDDLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 35.3%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate median household earnings sit near $74,983, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which BOBBY SHAW MIDDLE is one.

Nearest neighbor: SOUTHMORE INT, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BOBBY SHAW MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, BOBBY SHAW MIDDLE comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 40.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. BOBBY SHAW MIDDLE's enrollment has edged down 16% since 2018, when it stood at 782 (now 655).

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