DOROTHY THOMPSON MIDDLE

DOROTHY THOMPSON MIDDLE is one of the cozy intermediate schools in PROGRESO, Texas, run under PROGRESO ISD, with 281 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so DOROTHY THOMPSON MIDDLE sits 56% smaller than that benchmark.

DOROTHY THOMPSON MIDDLE is one of 4 schools operated by PROGRESO ISD, a district that enrolls 1,339 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, DOROTHY THOMPSON MIDDLE logs that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting DOROTHY THOMPSON MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Hidalgo County runs at roughly 85%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), DOROTHY THOMPSON MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.2%; this one delivers 37.3%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Hidalgo County) logs that median household earnings sit near $54,338, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. DOROTHY THOMPSON MIDDLE is one of 364 public schools in Hidalgo County (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students).

PROGRESO H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DOROTHY THOMPSON MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, DOROTHY THOMPSON MIDDLE comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 36.1%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DOROTHY THOMPSON MIDDLE has rose 6%, going from 265 students in 2018 to 281 in 2025.

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