CLARK MIDDLE

CLARK MIDDLE, a cozy junior high in PRINCETON, Texas, one of the schools within PRINCETON ISD, teaches 479 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 26% smaller than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

Across the 14 schools in PRINCETON ISD (9,956 students total), CLARK MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, CLARK MIDDLE logs that 40% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 30% Black, 18% White, 7% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

On the income-and-resources front, CLARK MIDDLE lists 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Collin County runs at roughly 30%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CLARK MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.7%, the actual is 52.9%, a residual of +7.1 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Collin County) shows that median household income runs about $121,600, about 56% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. CLARK MIDDLE is one of 338 public schools in Collin County (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students).

CANUP EARLY CHILDHOOD is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, CLARK MIDDLE comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 45.6%.

CLARK MIDDLE operates from a town-center location.

Five-year trend. CLARK MIDDLE's enrollment has declined 23% since 2018, when it stood at 620 (now 479). Over the same period, the Black share grew from 10% to 30%. Class-load math has fell: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for CLARK MIDDLE typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.