HARRY S TRUMAN MIDDLE

HARRY S TRUMAN MIDDLE is one of the small intermediate schools in GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas, one of the schools within GRAND PRAIRIE ISD, with 428 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 33% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

GRAND PRAIRIE ISD runs 40 schools in total, collectively educating 27,240 students. HARRY S TRUMAN MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, HARRY S TRUMAN MIDDLE reports that 49% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 26% Black, 10% Asian, 8% White, 5% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 75% of students at HARRY S TRUMAN MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, HARRY S TRUMAN MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.9%; this one delivers 31.1%.

Across the wider county, Dallas County reports that median household income runs about $76,547, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. HARRY S TRUMAN MIDDLE is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).

SUZANNA DICKINSON MONTESSORI ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HARRY S TRUMAN MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, HARRY S TRUMAN MIDDLE comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 43.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 28%: 593 students in 2018 compared to 428 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 14% to 8%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.