FRIENDS FOR LIFE MIDDLE

Located at 5503 EL CAMINO DEL REY, in HOUSTON, Texas, FRIENDS FOR LIFE MIDDLE is an one-room-style junior high that caters to 226 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by AMIGOS POR VIDA-FRIENDS FOR LIFE PUB CHTR SCH. That puts it 65% leaner than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

Across the 2 schools in AMIGOS POR VIDA-FRIENDS FOR LIFE PUB CHTR SCH (750 students total), FRIENDS FOR LIFE MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, FRIENDS FOR LIFE MIDDLE shows that 96% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, FRIENDS FOR LIFE MIDDLE has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Roughly 95% of students at FRIENDS FOR LIFE MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, 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 somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, FRIENDS FOR LIFE 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 32.3%; FRIENDS FOR LIFE MIDDLE posts 62.9%, +30.6 points above that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Harris County shows the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. FRIENDS FOR LIFE MIDDLE is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

Nearest neighbor: AMIGOS POR VIDA-FRIENDS FOR LIFE CHARTER SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), FRIENDS FOR LIFE MIDDLE ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 41.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area. As a public charter, FRIENDS FOR LIFE MIDDLE runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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