DUNBAR MIDDLE

Located at 2901 23RD ST, in DICKINSON, Texas, DUNBAR MIDDLE is a moderately sized elementary-level community that teaches 558 students (grades 4 through 5), overseen by DICKINSON ISD.

DUNBAR MIDDLE is one of 19 schools operated by DICKINSON ISD, a district that works with 12,554 students overall.

In terms of who attends, DUNBAR MIDDLE reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 56% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 23% White, 15% Black, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 26% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, DUNBAR MIDDLE shows 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting DUNBAR MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 72% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Galveston County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DUNBAR MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.4%; this one delivers 37.1%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Galveston County) records that median household income runs about $86,105, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Galveston County's 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,767 students), DUNBAR MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

JAKE SILBERNAGEL EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, DUNBAR MIDDLE comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.3%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 17%: 674 students in 2018 compared to 558 in 2025.

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