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Enrollment
413
Middle
DISTRICT 647 · STATE 643
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HOUSTON ISD·NCES 482364002435
Deady Middle School
2500 BROADWAY ST, HOUSTON, TX 77012 · (713) 845-7411 · Harris County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL413 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.3:1 · STATE 14.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
98%
406 students
DISTRICT 84% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 136 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 127 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 150 | 36% |
Student demographics
10%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on published attendance-zone data from HOUSTON ISD. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
48.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +32.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
46.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +40.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 46 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 32 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 40 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 25.0% | 23.0% | 28.0% | 24.0% |
| Mathematics | 22.0% | 24.0% | 30.0% | 24.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 48.0% | 46.0% |
| 2024-25 | 41.0% | 41.0% |
| 2023-24 | 30.0% | 27.0% |
| 2022-23 | 28.0% | 31.0% |
| 2021-22 | 35.0% | 20.0% |
| 2020-21 | 16.0% | 6.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
34.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.7%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Deady Middle School
Deady Middle School's state test result (34.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deady Middle School this school | 413 | 98.3% | 34.4% |
| Thomas C Marsh Middle School DALLAS | 445 | 97.3% | 27.6% |
| Navarro Middle School HOUSTON | 400 | 97.8% | 31.1% |
| Edison Middle School HOUSTON | 388 | 99.7% | 43.8% |
| Martin Middle School CORPUS CHRISTI | 406 | 96.6% | 22.4% |
| Alan B Shepard Middle School SAN ANTONIO | 447 | 97.3% | 28.8% |
Matched among Texas middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Deady Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Harris County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.4% | #1,203 of 1,635 | #153 of 218 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 46.0% | #679 of 1,670 ▲ 149 | #88 of 219 ▲ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.0% | #1,135 of 1,670 ▲ 214 | #147 of 219 ▲ 24 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +17.5pp | #387 of 1,570 | #60 of 216 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 413 | #1,238 of 1,749 | #191 of 227 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #82 of 1,542 | #11 of 215 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 9.7% | #1,395 of 1,543 | #207 of 215 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.3% | #31 of 1,648 | #13 of 221 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -42.6% | #41 of 942 | #8 of 145 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
413
-235 (-36%) vs 2020
-82% since 1990-91, when it was 2,275
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 16.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 413 | 37 | 11.2:1 | 98% (406) |
| 2023-24 | 494 | 41.8 | 11.8:1 | 98% (484) |
| 2022-23 | 588 | 38.3 | 15.4:1 | 96% (562) |
| 2020-21 | 648 | 39 | 16.6:1 | 97% (627) |
| 2017-18 | 719 | 41 | 17.5:1 | 97% (694) |
| 2015-16 | 701 | 40 | 17.5:1 | 89% (624) |
| 2010-11 | 872 | 51 | 17.1:1 | 60% (525) |
| 2000-01 | 1,173 | 62 | 18.9:1 | 91% (1,068) |
| 1990-91 | 2,275 | 109 | 20.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Deady Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 43% (719 to 413); teachers down 10% (41 to 37).
About Deady Middle School
Deady Middle School is a middle-grades school in HOUSTON, Texas, reachable at (713) 845-7411. The school's 413 students are in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment is 36% lower than the average for middle schools in Texas, which is about 643.
The HOUSTON ISD system has 273 schools and 176,727 students.
Most students at Deady Middle School are Hispanic: 95% of enrollment. Other groups include 4% Black. The county population is about 44% Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at Deady Middle School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 10%.
The teaching staff at Deady Middle School is 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 11.2:1. The average ratio among middle schools in Texas is 14.4:1, higher than at this school. About 98% of students, or 406, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 28 points above the 70% average for public schools in Harris County.
Deady Middle School is 2.7 points above its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (34.4% versus 31.7%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Texas.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Harris County show that median household income is about $74,983, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 13% of residents are in poverty. Deady Middle School is one of 1,205 public schools in Harris County, which together enroll about 886,911 students.
The school nearest to Deady Middle School is Sanchez Elementary School, at a distance of about 0.4 miles. Within five miles of Deady Middle School, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 45.1%; Deady Middle School's is 34.4%, ranking 9th of 9.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Large, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count declined from 648 to 413. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (11.2:1) than in 2020-21 (16.6:1).
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Harris County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
4,838,303
Census ACS
Median income
$74,983
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,205
886,911 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in HOUSTON ISD
- Texas Connections Academy at HoustonCombined · 8,641 students
- Bellaire High SchoolHigh · 3,216 students
- Lamar High SchoolHigh · 2,968 students
- Westside High SchoolHigh · 2,729 students
- Heights High SchoolHigh · 2,426 students
- Houston Math Science and Technology CenterHigh · 2,396 students
Other schools in HOUSTON
- Texas Connections Academy at HoustonCombined · 8,641 students
- North Shore Senior HighHigh · 4,284 students
- Elsik High SchoolHigh · 4,057 students
- Summer Creek High SchoolHigh · 3,972 students
- Hastings High SchoolHigh · 3,786 students
- C E King High SchoolHigh · 3,716 students
Nearby schools
- Sanchez Elementary School0.4 mi · 378
- Pstem Academy0.4 mi · 482
- Early College STEM Academy0.4 mi · 275
- Early College T-STEM Academy0.4 mi · 303
- Milby High School0.5 mi · 2,126
- Crespo Elementary School0.7 mi · 526
Frequently asked questions
About Deady Middle SchoolHow many students attend Deady Middle School?
Deady Middle School enrolls approximately 413 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Deady Middle School serve?
Deady Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does Deady Middle School have?
Deady Middle School employs 37 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.2:1.
What is the student diversity at Deady Middle School?
Student demographics at Deady Middle School are roughly 1% White, 95% Hispanic, 4% Black.
What district is Deady Middle School in?
Deady Middle School is part of HOUSTON ISD.
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