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CORSICANA MIDDLE
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 30 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are down about 1 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CORSICANA MIDDLE
CORSICANA MIDDLE operates as a moderately sized intermediate school in CORSICANA, Texas, one of the schools within CORSICANA ISD. Current enrollment sits at 857 students spanning grades 7 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 33% larger than the state mean of about 643.
CORSICANA MIDDLE is one of 8 schools operated by CORSICANA ISD, a district that serves 5,998 students overall.
Looking at the student body, CORSICANA MIDDLE lists that 58% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest is composed of 21% White, 14% Black, 3% Pacific Islander, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 32%.
On the resource side, On paper, CORSICANA MIDDLE has 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 81% of students at CORSICANA MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Navarro County's rate of about 71%.
With demographic context factored in, CORSICANA MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.6%; this one delivers 32.4%.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Navarro County indicate median household earnings sit near $63,111, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Navarro County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,681 students), of which CORSICANA MIDDLE is one.
Nearest neighbor: CORSICANA H S, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CORSICANA MIDDLE at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 33.0%.
The campus sits in a town-center setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 3%: 830 students in 2018 compared to 857 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 51% to 58% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.
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Navarro County at a glance
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