GALENA PARK MIDDLE

GALENA PARK MIDDLE operates as a reasonably sized intermediate school in GALENA PARK, Texas, overseen by GALENA PARK ISD. Current enrollment sits at 896 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 39% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

GALENA PARK ISD runs 26 schools in total, collectively educating 20,862 students. GALENA PARK MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, GALENA PARK MIDDLE logs that 93% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest reads as 4% Black. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, GALENA PARK MIDDLE logs 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 88% of students at GALENA PARK MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, GALENA PARK MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.6%; this one delivers 47.8%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Harris County put median household earnings sit near $74,983, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which GALENA PARK MIDDLE is one.

GALENA PARK EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts GALENA PARK MIDDLE at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 44.7%.

GALENA PARK MIDDLE operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. GALENA PARK MIDDLE's enrollment has declined 12% since 2018, when it stood at 1,013 (now 896).

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