DEAN MIDDLE

DEAN MIDDLE operates as a sizable middle school in HOUSTON, Texas, one of the schools within CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD. Current enrollment sits at 1,143 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 78% above the state mean of about 643.

CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD comprises 92 schools with combined enrollment of 117,927 students; DEAN MIDDLE is among them.

In terms of who attends, DEAN MIDDLE records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 73% of enrollment. Other groups include 16% Black, 4% Asian, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, DEAN MIDDLE has 82 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, DEAN MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.0%, the actual is 39.1%, a residual of +5.1 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Harris County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which DEAN MIDDLE is one.

BANE EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DEAN MIDDLE. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DEAN MIDDLE at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 39.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 31%: 1,653 students in 2018 compared to 1,143 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

On this page, the feed for DEAN MIDDLE typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.