GARRISON MIDDLE

GARRISON MIDDLE operates as a minimally staffed middle-grades school in GARRISON, Texas, overseen by GARRISON ISD. Current enrollment sits at 166 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 74% leaner than the state mean of about 643.

Across the 4 schools in GARRISON ISD (736 students total), GARRISON MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, GARRISON MIDDLE shows that White students make up the majority at 74%; the rest consists of 13% Hispanic, 10% Black, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, GARRISON MIDDLE has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.4:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 54% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Nacogdoches County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), GARRISON MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.2%; this one delivers 54.2%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Nacogdoches County indicate median household earnings sit near $53,555, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Nacogdoches County's 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,396 students), GARRISON MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

GARRISON H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around GARRISON MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, GARRISON MIDDLE comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 46.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. GARRISON MIDDLE's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 168 (now 166). White enrollment moved from 65% to 74% across the same window.

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