FRANK SEALE MIDDLE

FRANK SEALE MIDDLE is one of the mid-tier middle-grades schools in MIDLOTHIAN, Texas, run under MIDLOTHIAN ISD, with 726 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Across the 14 schools in MIDLOTHIAN ISD (11,356 students total), FRANK SEALE MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, FRANK SEALE MIDDLE logs that 36% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 35% Hispanic, 23% Black, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 60% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 53% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), FRANK SEALE MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.6%; this one delivers 44.9%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Ellis County) logs that median household income runs about $99,595, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. FRANK SEALE MIDDLE is one of 83 public schools in Ellis County (combined enrollment of about 46,344 students).

MIDLOTHIAN H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FRANK SEALE MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, FRANK SEALE MIDDLE comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 56.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 31%: 1,058 students in 2018 compared to 726 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 67% to 36%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.