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EUGENE 'GENE' KRANZ J H
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Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyAbout EUGENE 'GENE' KRANZ J H
EUGENE 'GENE' KRANZ J H operates as a mid-sized intermediate school in DICKINSON, Texas, overseen by DICKINSON ISD. Current enrollment sits at 877 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 36% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.
EUGENE 'GENE' KRANZ J H is one of 19 schools operated by DICKINSON ISD, a district that serves 12,554 students overall.
In terms of who attends, EUGENE 'GENE' KRANZ J H reports that 63% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 28% White, 6% Black, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 26% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 73 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Galveston County's rate of about 57%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), EUGENE 'GENE' KRANZ J H tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 40.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 48.3%.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Galveston County indicate median household earnings sit near $86,105, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Galveston County's 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,767 students), EUGENE 'GENE' KRANZ J H is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: JOHN AND SHAMARION BARBER MIDDLE, around 1.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, EUGENE 'GENE' KRANZ J H comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 45.0%.
The campus sits in an outlying setting.
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