CALLISBURG MIDDLE
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Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 42 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 14 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 17 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 57% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CALLISBURG MIDDLE
CALLISBURG MIDDLE is an intermediate school of small scale in CALLISBURG, Texas, operated by CALLISBURG ISD, teacheing 287 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 55% leaner than the state mean of about 643.
CALLISBURG ISD runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,151 students. CALLISBURG MIDDLE is one of those campuses.
Demographically, CALLISBURG MIDDLE records that 79% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 14% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Cooke County as a whole.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, CALLISBURG MIDDLE has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.9:1. The state averages about 14.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 38% of students at CALLISBURG MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Cooke County (around 48%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
After controlling for student poverty, CALLISBURG MIDDLE falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 57.5%; this one comes in at 42.7%, -14.8 points off the demographic line.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Cooke County) logs that median household income runs about $73,932, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. CALLISBURG MIDDLE is one of 20 public schools in Cooke County (combined enrollment of about 6,986 students).
The closest other public school is CALLISBURG H S, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, CALLISBURG MIDDLE comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.5%.
The campus sits in a low-density setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 11%: 258 students in 2018 compared to 287 in 2025.
Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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