HENDERSON MIDDLE

HENDERSON MIDDLE, a medium-sized junior high in HENDERSON, Texas, one of the schools within HENDERSON ISD, teaches 700 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

HENDERSON ISD comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 3,245 students; HENDERSON MIDDLE is among them.

In terms of who attends, HENDERSON MIDDLE logs that the largest single group is White at 38%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder consists of 38% Hispanic, 19% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 66% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting HENDERSON MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 63% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, HENDERSON MIDDLE falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 46.2%; this one comes in at 31.0%, -15.2 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Rusk County) logs that median household income runs about $68,658, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Rusk County runs 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,350 students), of which HENDERSON MIDDLE is one.

NORTHSIDE EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HENDERSON MIDDLE comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 42.2%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Trend over the last 7 years. HENDERSON MIDDLE's enrollment has ticked down 8% since 2018, when it stood at 757 (now 700). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 48% to 38% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

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