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FANNIN MIDDLE
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 29 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 18 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About FANNIN MIDDLE
As a middle-of-the-pack middle school in AMARILLO, Texas, FANNIN MIDDLE serves 592 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within AMARILLO ISD.
Within AMARILLO ISD, which oversees 55 schools and 29,321 students, FANNIN MIDDLE is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, FANNIN MIDDLE shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 48%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 35% White, 8% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.
In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting FANNIN MIDDLE higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 78% of students at FANNIN MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Randall County's rate of about 44%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), FANNIN MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.7%, the actual is 33.6%, a residual of -6.1 points.
Around the school, census data for Randall County shows median household earnings sit near $83,864, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Randall County's 43 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,668 students), FANNIN MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: SOUTH LAWN EL, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts FANNIN MIDDLE at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 45.4%.
FANNIN MIDDLE operates from a high-density location.
Five-year trend. FANNIN MIDDLE's enrollment has decreased 13% since 2018, when it stood at 678 (now 592).
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