GORMAN MIDDLE

GORMAN MIDDLE operates as an one-room-style 6-8 campus in GORMAN, Texas, one of the schools within GORMAN ISD. Current enrollment sits at 47 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so GORMAN MIDDLE sits 93% smaller than that benchmark.

Within GORMAN ISD, which oversees 3 schools and 242 students, GORMAN MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, GORMAN MIDDLE lists that the largest single group is White at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 43% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% multiracial, 2% Pacific Islander. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 81%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, GORMAN MIDDLE has 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 7.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting GORMAN MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 74% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Eastland County (around 58%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GORMAN MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.4%, the actual is 33.9%, a residual of -7.5 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Eastland County indicate median household income runs about $53,549, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Eastland County runs 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,515 students), of which GORMAN MIDDLE is one.

GORMAN H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, GORMAN MIDDLE comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 57.7%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at GORMAN MIDDLE has ticked down 35%, going from 72 students in 2018 to 47 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 61% to 51% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 7.7:1 today.

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