COMMERCE MIDDLE

COMMERCE MIDDLE, a tight-knit 6-8 campus in COMMERCE, Texas, overseen by COMMERCE ISD, works with 339 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 47% leaner than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

COMMERCE MIDDLE is one of 4 schools operated by COMMERCE ISD, a district that hosts 1,542 students overall.

On demographics, COMMERCE MIDDLE logs that the largest single group is White at 36%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 28% Hispanic, 26% Black, 9% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Hunt County's rate of about 61%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), COMMERCE MIDDLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 37.9%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Hunt County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $71,938 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Hunt County's 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,771 students), COMMERCE MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

ALBERT C WILLIAMS EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, COMMERCE MIDDLE comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 30.6%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at COMMERCE MIDDLE has showed little movement, going from 331 students in 2018 to 339 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 50% to 36%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2025.

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