CHRISTA MCAULIFFE MIDDLE

CHRISTA MCAULIFFE MIDDLE, a medium-sized middle school in HOUSTON, Texas, overseen by FORT BEND ISD, instructs 806 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so CHRISTA MCAULIFFE MIDDLE sits 25% bigger than that benchmark.

FORT BEND ISD comprises 83 schools with combined enrollment of 79,663 students; CHRISTA MCAULIFFE MIDDLE is among them.

On demographics, CHRISTA MCAULIFFE MIDDLE logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 57% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 39% Black, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, CHRISTA MCAULIFFE MIDDLE has 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Fort Bend County's rate of about 42%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, CHRISTA MCAULIFFE MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.1%, the actual is 27.4%, a residual of -6.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, Fort Bend County reports that the typical household earns roughly $114,041 per year, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Fort Bend County runs 217 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,372 students), of which CHRISTA MCAULIFFE MIDDLE is one.

BLUE RIDGE BRIARGATE EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, CHRISTA MCAULIFFE MIDDLE comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 31.2%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. CHRISTA MCAULIFFE MIDDLE's enrollment has ticked down 17% since 2018, when it stood at 969 (now 806). The Black share of enrollment contracted from 47% to 39% over that span.

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