CURTISTENE S MCCOWAN MIDDLE

CURTISTENE S MCCOWAN MIDDLE is a mid-sized 6-8 campus in GLENN HEIGHTS, Texas, overseen by DESOTO ISD. The school caters to 643 students in grades 6 through 8.

Within DESOTO ISD, which oversees 11 schools and 5,708 students, CURTISTENE S MCCOWAN MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, CURTISTENE S MCCOWAN MIDDLE reports that Black students make up the majority at 62%. Beyond that, the school logs 32% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, CURTISTENE S MCCOWAN MIDDLE has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.7:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 79% of students at CURTISTENE S MCCOWAN MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, CURTISTENE S MCCOWAN MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.6%; this one delivers 30.5%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Dallas County indicate median household income runs about $76,547, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. CURTISTENE S MCCOWAN MIDDLE is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).

Nearest neighbor: FRANK D MOATES EL, around 1.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CURTISTENE S MCCOWAN MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, CURTISTENE S MCCOWAN MIDDLE comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 36.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CURTISTENE S MCCOWAN MIDDLE has decreased 35%, going from 994 students in 2018 to 643 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 69% to 62% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 22.7:1 today.

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