CLEVELAND MIDDLE

Located at 2000 E HOUSTON ST, in CLEVELAND, Texas, CLEVELAND MIDDLE is a large middle-grades school that teaches 1,446 students (grades 6 through 8), one of the schools within CLEVELAND ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 125% larger than the state mean of about 643.

Across the 11 schools in CLEVELAND ISD (12,513 students total), CLEVELAND MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, CLEVELAND MIDDLE lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (83%). The remainder looks like 10% White, 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 40% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, CLEVELAND MIDDLE has 94 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Liberty County's rate of about 80%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CLEVELAND MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.8%, the actual is 23.8%, a residual of -10.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Liberty County indicate median household income runs about $68,703, 12% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. In all, Liberty County runs 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,599 students), of which CLEVELAND MIDDLE is one.

Nearest neighbor: CLEVELAND H S, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around CLEVELAND MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, CLEVELAND MIDDLE comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 29.0%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. CLEVELAND MIDDLE's enrollment has grew 72% since 2018, when it stood at 842 (now 1,446). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 68% to 83%.

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