FONDREN MIDDLE

Set in HOUSTON, Texas, FONDREN MIDDLE is a mid-sized junior high, part of HOUSTON ISD. It instructs 713 students across grades 6 through 8.

Across the 273 schools in HOUSTON ISD (176,727 students total), FONDREN MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, FONDREN MIDDLE shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 75%. Beyond that, the school lists 22% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, FONDREN MIDDLE has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Harris County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), FONDREN MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.4%, the actual is 23.1%, a residual of -8.3 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Harris County put median household income runs about $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which FONDREN MIDDLE is one.

ELROD EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, FONDREN MIDDLE comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.6%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at FONDREN MIDDLE has contracted 30%, going from 1,022 students in 2018 to 713 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 63% to 75% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

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