FOSTER MIDDLE

Set in LONGVIEW, Texas, FOSTER MIDDLE is a mid-tier middle-grades school, part of LONGVIEW ISD. It serves 788 students across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so FOSTER MIDDLE sits 23% bigger than that benchmark.

LONGVIEW ISD runs 14 schools in total, collectively educating 8,138 students. FOSTER MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

Demographically, FOSTER MIDDLE lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 33% Black, 15% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Gregg County as a whole is about 20% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 84% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Gregg County's rate of about 68%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, FOSTER MIDDLE ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 37.4%; FOSTER MIDDLE posts 57.0%, +19.6 points above that line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Gregg County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,550 per year, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Gregg County's 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,498 students), FOSTER MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: HUDSON EL, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts FOSTER MIDDLE at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 48.0%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting. FOSTER MIDDLE operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 7%: 736 students in 2018 compared to 788 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 41% to 47% across the same window.

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