HARTMAN MIDDLE

As a moderately sized 6-8 campus in HOUSTON, Texas, HARTMAN MIDDLE hosts 645 students from grades 6 through 8, overseen by HOUSTON ISD.

Within HOUSTON ISD, which oversees 273 schools and 176,727 students, HARTMAN MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, HARTMAN MIDDLE reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 74% of enrollment. Other groups include 24% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Harris County's rate of about 70%.

After controlling for student poverty, HARTMAN MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.5%, the actual is 45.1%, a residual of +12.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), HARTMAN MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

GREGG EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HARTMAN MIDDLE. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HARTMAN MIDDLE at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 40.4%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 52%: 1,335 students in 2018 compared to 645 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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