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Enrollment
583
Middle
DISTRICT 647 · STATE 643
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HOUSTON ISD·NCES 482364002458
Fonville Middle School
725 E LITTLE YORK RD, HOUSTON, TX 77076 · (713) 696-2825 · Harris County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL583 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.3:1 · STATE 14.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
95%
556 students
DISTRICT 84% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 187 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 211 | 36% |
| Grade 8 | 185 | 32% |
Student demographics
11%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Fonville Middle School→Houston Math Science and Technology Center
Feeds from
Based on published attendance-zone data from HOUSTON ISD. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
54.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +39.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
48.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +35.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 39 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 35 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 25.0% | 29.0% | 23.0% | 23.0% |
| Mathematics | 20.0% | 28.0% | 29.0% | 23.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 54.0% | 48.0% |
| 2024-25 | 46.0% | 47.0% |
| 2023-24 | 33.0% | 36.0% |
| 2022-23 | 21.0% | 18.0% |
| 2021-22 | 32.0% | 23.0% |
| 2020-21 | 15.0% | 13.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
38.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.0%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Fonville Middle School
Fonville Middle School's state test result (38.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fonville Middle School this school | 583 | 95.4% | 38.0% |
| Raul Quintanilla Sr Middle Steam Academy DALLAS | 556 | 95.1% | 35.9% |
| Hot Wells Middle School SAN ANTONIO | 595 | 93.9% | 19.1% |
| Hector P Garcia Middle School DALLAS | 621 | 97.1% | 43.5% |
| Elder Middle School FORT WORTH | 646 | 94.4% | 23.9% |
| Zan Wesley Holmes Jr Middle School DALLAS | 570 | 97.0% | 32.7% |
Matched among Texas middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Fonville Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Harris County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.0% | #1,035 of 1,635 | #129 of 218 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.0% | #609 of 1,670 ▼ 7 | #71 of 219 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.0% | #849 of 1,670 ▲ 300 | #101 of 219 ▲ 43 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +31.5pp | #59 of 1,570 | #7 of 216 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 583 | #958 of 1,749 | #153 of 227 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.6:1 | #486 of 1,542 | #66 of 215 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 10.5% | #1,386 of 1,543 | #202 of 215 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 95.4% | #101 of 1,648 | #29 of 221 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.3% | #120 of 942 | #29 of 145 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
583
-176 (-23%) vs 2020
-24% since 1990-91, when it was 770
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
was 16.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 583 | 42.9 | 13.6:1 | 95% (556) |
| 2023-24 | 663 | 43.2 | 15.3:1 | 98% (647) |
| 2022-23 | 665 | 44 | 15.1:1 | 98% (650) |
| 2020-21 | 759 | 45 | 16.9:1 | 99% (749) |
| 2017-18 | 849 | 52.6 | 16.1:1 | 89% (752) |
| 2015-16 | 929 | 62 | 15.0:1 | 93% (864) |
| 2010-11 | 1,080 | 70 | 15.4:1 | 63% (680) |
| 2000-01 | 1,052 | 57 | 18.5:1 | 92% (972) |
| 1990-91 | 770 | 42 | 18.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Fonville Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 31% (849 to 583); teachers down 18% (52.6 to 42.9).
About Fonville Middle School
Fonville Middle School is a middle school in HOUSTON, Texas, reachable at (713) 696-2825. Federal data show 583 students enrolled in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25.
District-wide, HOUSTON ISD has 273 schools and 176,727 students.
Hispanic students account for 95% of the school's enrollment. It is also 4% Black. Harris County's residents are about 44% Hispanic, 51 points below the school's share. A diversity index of 11% means there is an 11% chance two randomly chosen students at Fonville Middle School are from different groups.
Classroom staffing at Fonville Middle School totals 42.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 13.6:1. The average for middle schools in Texas is 14.4:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Fonville Middle School is about 95%. For comparison, public schools in Harris County average 70%.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Fonville Middle School falls in the middle 80% of Texas schools: 38.0% actual against 33.0% predicted.
In Harris County, the median household earns about $74,983 a year, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 13% of residents are in poverty. Harris County has 1,205 public schools with about 886,911 students, including Fonville Middle School.
The closest school to Fonville Middle School is Moreno Elementary School, located about 0.3 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Fonville Middle School at 5th of 6.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Large.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 583, from 759 in 2020-21. The number of students per teacher dropped from 16.9 to 13.6 over 4 years.
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Harris County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
4,838,303
Census ACS
Median income
$74,983
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,205
886,911 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in HOUSTON ISD
- Texas Connections Academy at HoustonCombined · 8,641 students
- Bellaire High SchoolHigh · 3,216 students
- Lamar High SchoolHigh · 2,968 students
- Westside High SchoolHigh · 2,729 students
- Heights High SchoolHigh · 2,426 students
- Houston Math Science and Technology CenterHigh · 2,396 students
Other schools in HOUSTON
- Texas Connections Academy at HoustonCombined · 8,641 students
- North Shore Senior HighHigh · 4,284 students
- Elsik High SchoolHigh · 4,057 students
- Summer Creek High SchoolHigh · 3,972 students
- Hastings High SchoolHigh · 3,786 students
- C E King High SchoolHigh · 3,716 students
Nearby schools
- Moreno Elementary School0.3 mi · 697
- Durkee Elementary School0.3 mi · 439
- Farias Early Childhood Center0.4 mi · 389
- George I Sanchez North0.8 mi · 394
- YES Prep - Northline0.8 mi · 1,004
- De Chaumes Elementary School1.0 mi · 680
Frequently asked questions
About Fonville Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Fonville Middle School?
Fonville Middle School enrolls approximately 583 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Fonville Middle School serve?
Fonville Middle School serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Fonville Middle School?
Approximately 13.6:1 students per teacher at Fonville Middle School.
How diverse is Fonville Middle School?
Fonville Middle School reports a student body of 2% White, 95% Hispanic, 4% Black.
What district is Fonville Middle School in?
Fonville Middle School is part of HOUSTON ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.