GUNTER MIDDLE

GUNTER MIDDLE is a middle-grades school of compact scale in GUNTER, Texas, overseen by GUNTER ISD, serveing 375 students in grades 5 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 42% smaller than the state mean of about 643.

GUNTER ISD runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,156 students. GUNTER MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, GUNTER MIDDLE reports that White students make up the majority at 74%; the rest reads as 21% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting GUNTER MIDDLE higher than the state norm the norm. Around 16% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Grayson County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, GUNTER MIDDLE sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 66.8%; actual is 50.0%, a gap of -16.8 points.

In the area at large, census data for Grayson County shows median household income runs about $72,182, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. GUNTER MIDDLE is one of 68 public schools in Grayson County (combined enrollment of about 25,915 students).

Nearest neighbor: GUNTER H S, around 0.1 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, GUNTER MIDDLE comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 53.5%.

GUNTER MIDDLE operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. GUNTER MIDDLE's enrollment has expanded 40% since 2018, when it stood at 268 (now 375).

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