CAMERON MIDDLE

CAMERON MIDDLE is one of the intimate middle-grades schools in CAMERON, Texas, operated by CAMERON ISD, with 305 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 53% smaller than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

Across the 4 schools in CAMERON ISD (1,488 students total), CAMERON MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, CAMERON MIDDLE logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 30% White, 17% Black, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

Looking at school resources, CAMERON MIDDLE records 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Around 68% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CAMERON MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.1%, the actual is 38.9%, a residual of -5.2 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Milam County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,141 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Milam County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,337 students), of which CAMERON MIDDLE is one.

CAMERON EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CAMERON MIDDLE ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 49.0%.

CAMERON MIDDLE operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 20%: 380 students in 2018 compared to 305 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 35% to 30% across the same window.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.