C E KING MIDDLE

C E KING MIDDLE is a substantial middle-grades school in HOUSTON, Texas, overseen by SHELDON ISD. The school teaches 1,359 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so C E KING MIDDLE sits 111% above that benchmark.

SHELDON ISD runs 14 schools in total, collectively educating 10,946 students. C E KING MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, C E KING MIDDLE shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 68%. Beyond that, the school records 26% Black, 3% White. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 83 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting C E KING MIDDLE higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 86% of students at C E KING MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Harris County's rate of about 70%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, C E KING MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.2%, the actual is 32.7%, a residual of -3.5 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Harris County put median household income runs about $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 C E KING MIDDLE is one.

Nearest neighbor: KASE ACADEMY, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, C E KING MIDDLE comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 35.2%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. C E KING MIDDLE's enrollment has ticked up 30% since 2018, when it stood at 1,043 (now 1,359). The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked down from 77% to 68% over that span.

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