CENTER MIDDLE

CENTER MIDDLE, a small middle school in CENTER, Texas, operated by CENTER ISD, enrolls 496 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so CENTER MIDDLE sits 23% smaller than that benchmark.

Within CENTER ISD, which oversees 5 schools and 2,307 students, CENTER MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

Demographically, CENTER MIDDLE records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 24% White, 20% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Shelby County as a whole is about 20% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, CENTER MIDDLE has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.2:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 83% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Shelby County (around 71%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CENTER MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.8%, the actual is 37.2%, a residual of -0.6 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Shelby County indicate the typical household earns roughly $49,776 per year, 15% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. CENTER MIDDLE is one of 13 public schools in Shelby County (combined enrollment of about 5,174 students).

Nearest neighbor: CENTER EL, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, CENTER MIDDLE comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 38.8%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CENTER MIDDLE has decreased 8%, going from 541 students in 2018 to 496 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 31% to 24% across the same window.

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