GARCIA MIDDLE

GARCIA MIDDLE is a large intermediate school in HOUSTON, Texas, one of the schools within ALDINE ISD. The school enrolls 966 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 50% bigger than the state mean of about 643.

GARCIA MIDDLE is one of 76 schools operated by ALDINE ISD, a district that enrolls 56,419 students overall.

On demographics, GARCIA MIDDLE reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 75% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 20% Black, 2% White, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, GARCIA MIDDLE shows 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.1:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 84% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), GARCIA MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 37.2%; this one delivers 35.2%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate median household earnings sit near $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which GARCIA MIDDLE is one.

The closest other public school is HILL EL, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GARCIA MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, GARCIA MIDDLE comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 37.3%.

GARCIA MIDDLE operates from a suburban location.

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