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HAMILTON MIDDLE
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 61 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 24 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 9 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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 HAMILTON MIDDLE
HAMILTON MIDDLE is one of the roomy intermediate schools in CYPRESS, Texas, run under CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD, with 1,474 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so HAMILTON MIDDLE sits 129% larger than that benchmark.
CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD runs 92 schools in total, collectively educating 117,927 students. HAMILTON MIDDLE is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, HAMILTON MIDDLE lists that the largest single group is White at 39%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder consists of 33% Hispanic, 15% Black, 9% Asian, 4% multiracial.
In terms of school funding signals, HAMILTON MIDDLE lists 84 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.6:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 40% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Harris County's rate of about 70%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, HAMILTON MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.3%; this one delivers 66.5%.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Harris County put median household income runs about $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which HAMILTON MIDDLE is one.
The closest other public school is HAMILTON EL, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, HAMILTON MIDDLE comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 62.6%.
HAMILTON MIDDLE operates from an outer-ring location.
Over the past 7-year window. HAMILTON MIDDLE's enrollment has increased 6% since 2018, when it stood at 1,396 (now 1,474). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 52% to 39%.
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