CRANE MIDDLE

CRANE MIDDLE is a low-enrollment 6-8 campus in CRANE, Texas, part of CRANE ISD. The school works with 261 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 59% leaner than the state mean of about 643.

Within CRANE ISD, which oversees 3 schools and 1,233 students, CRANE MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, CRANE MIDDLE logs that nearly all students (85%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school logs 11% White. The wider county runs roughly 69% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting CRANE MIDDLE higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 8% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Crane County's rate of about 55%.

With demographic context factored in, CRANE MIDDLE falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 70.3%; this one comes in at 37.9%, -32.4 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, Crane County reports that the typical household earns roughly $62,212 per year, 13% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Crane County's 3 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,233 students), CRANE MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: CRANE H S, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around CRANE MIDDLE. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CRANE MIDDLE at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 32.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CRANE MIDDLE has changed only slightly, going from 261 students in 2018 to 261 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 21% to 11% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 today.

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