BRIDGE CITY MIDDLE

BRIDGE CITY MIDDLE is a middle-of-the-pack 6-8 campus in BRIDGE CITY, Texas, operated by BRIDGE CITY ISD. The school hosts 715 students in grades 6 through 8.

Within BRIDGE CITY ISD, which oversees 4 schools and 3,157 students, BRIDGE CITY MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, BRIDGE CITY MIDDLE records that the largest single group is White, at 70% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 22% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 79%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Around 39% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 56%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, BRIDGE CITY MIDDLE sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 57.0%; actual is 41.2%, a gap of -15.7 points.

In the area at large, census data for Orange County shows the typical household earns roughly $72,104 per year, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. BRIDGE CITY MIDDLE is one of 25 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 15,100 students).

The closest other public school is BRIDGE CITY H S, roughly 0.2 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BRIDGE CITY MIDDLE comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 44.5%.

BRIDGE CITY MIDDLE operates from a town-based location.

Over the past 7-year window. BRIDGE CITY MIDDLE's enrollment has grew 12% since 2018, when it stood at 637 (now 715). White enrollment moved from 76% to 70% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 in 2025.

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