CHINA SPRING MIDDLE

Located at 7201 N RIVER CROSSING, in CHINA SPRING, Texas, CHINA SPRING MIDDLE is a modestly sized junior high that educates 483 students (grades 7 through 8), run under CHINA SPRING ISD. That puts it 25% smaller than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

CHINA SPRING ISD comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 3,013 students; CHINA SPRING MIDDLE is among them.

Looking at the student body, CHINA SPRING MIDDLE shows that the largest single group is White, at 60% of enrollment; the rest consists of 29% Hispanic, 6% Black, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. An estimated 34% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, McLennan County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CHINA SPRING MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.0%, the actual is 54.8%, a residual of -4.1 points.

In the broader community, census data for McLennan County shows the typical household earns roughly $66,643 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. CHINA SPRING MIDDLE is one of 124 public schools in McLennan County (combined enrollment of about 45,703 students).

CHINA SPRING H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around CHINA SPRING MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, CHINA SPRING MIDDLE comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 58.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. CHINA SPRING MIDDLE's enrollment has expanded 13% since 2018, when it stood at 427 (now 483). White enrollment moved from 72% to 60% across the same window.

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