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C B THOMPSON MIDDLE
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 24 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 13 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About C B THOMPSON MIDDLE
C B THOMPSON MIDDLE operates as an average-sized 6-8 campus in QUINLAN, Texas, one of the schools within QUINLAN ISD. Current enrollment sits at 671 students spanning grades 6 through 8.
Within QUINLAN ISD, which oversees 4 schools and 2,936 students, C B THOMPSON MIDDLE is one campus in the system.
On demographics, C B THOMPSON MIDDLE logs that the largest single group is White at 52%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest is composed of 43% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting C B THOMPSON MIDDLE higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 73% of students at C B THOMPSON MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Hunt County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, C B THOMPSON 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 32.6%, a residual of -9.2 points.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Hunt County put median household income runs about $71,938, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Hunt County's 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,771 students), C B THOMPSON MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is An E BUTLER INT, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around C B THOMPSON MIDDLE. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts C B THOMPSON MIDDLE at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 41.8%.
The campus sits in a rural setting.
Over the past 7-year window. C B THOMPSON MIDDLE's enrollment has edged up 23% since 2018, when it stood at 545 (now 671). Over the same period, the White share fell from 68% to 52%. Class-load math has rose: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 in 2025.
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