HOPPER MIDDLE

Set in CYPRESS, Texas, HOPPER MIDDLE is a reasonably sized middle school, one of the schools within CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD. It caters to 873 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts it 36% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

CYPRESS-FAIRBANKS ISD comprises 92 schools with combined enrollment of 117,927 students; HOPPER MIDDLE is among them.

In terms of who attends, HOPPER MIDDLE reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 37% Black, 6% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Harris County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HOPPER MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.3%, the actual is 34.1%, a residual of -3.2 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Harris County) records that the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), HOPPER MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: CYPRESS SPRINGS H S, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HOPPER MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, HOPPER MIDDLE comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 44.0%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. HOPPER MIDDLE's enrollment has shrank 35% since 2018, when it stood at 1,352 (now 873). Black enrollment moved from 30% to 37% across the same window.

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