FONVILLE MIDDLE

FONVILLE MIDDLE is a middle-grades school of reasonably sized scale in HOUSTON, Texas, run under HOUSTON ISD, caters to 583 students in grades 6 through 8.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, FONVILLE MIDDLE lists that 95% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 4% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

Looking at school resources, FONVILLE MIDDLE lists 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Around 95% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, FONVILLE MIDDLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 35.5%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Harris County shows median household income runs about $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. FONVILLE MIDDLE is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

The closest other public school is MORENO EL, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, FONVILLE MIDDLE comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.5%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 31%: 849 students in 2018 compared to 583 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 90% to 95% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

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