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HALTOM MIDDLE
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 31 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 11 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 38% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About HALTOM MIDDLE
HALTOM MIDDLE operates as a middle-of-the-pack middle-grades school in HALTOM CITY, Texas, operated by BIRDVILLE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 909 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so HALTOM MIDDLE sits 41% above that benchmark.
BIRDVILLE ISD runs 30 schools in total, collectively educating 22,267 students. HALTOM MIDDLE is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, HALTOM MIDDLE records that 81% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest reads as 12% White, 3% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Tarrant County's rate of about 63%.
With demographic context factored in, HALTOM MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.3%; this one delivers 32.2%.
In the area at large, Tarrant County reports that median household income runs about $84,207, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Tarrant County's 639 public schools (combined enrollment of about 385,835 students), HALTOM MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is WEST BIRDVILLE EL, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, HALTOM MIDDLE comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 34.1%.
HALTOM MIDDLE operates from a bedroom-community location.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 928 students in 2018 compared to 909 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 today.
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Tarrant County at a glance
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