FIELD MIDDLE

FIELD MIDDLE is one of the medium-sized intermediate schools in FARMERS BRANCH, Texas, run under CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD, with 864 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so FIELD MIDDLE sits 34% bigger than that benchmark.

FIELD MIDDLE is one of 39 schools operated by CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD, a district that caters to 24,165 students overall.

Demographically, FIELD MIDDLE logs that nearly all students (83%) are Hispanic. The remainder looks like 7% White, 6% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting FIELD MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. About 78% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, FIELD MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.9%; this one delivers 43.1%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Dallas County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which FIELD MIDDLE is one.

Nearest neighbor: FARMERS BRANCH EL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FIELD MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, FIELD MIDDLE comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 42.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at FIELD MIDDLE has edged down 14%, going from 1,006 students in 2018 to 864 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

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