HOUSTON MIDDLE

HOUSTON MIDDLE is an average-sized 6-8 campus in IRVING, Texas, operated by IRVING ISD. The school educates 758 students in grades 6 through 8.

Within IRVING ISD, which oversees 37 schools and 31,918 students, HOUSTON MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, HOUSTON MIDDLE shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 30% Black, 6% White, 6% Asian, 3% Native American. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, HOUSTON MIDDLE has 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.0:1. The state averages about 14.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 81% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, HOUSTON MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.3%, the actual is 40.7%, a residual of +2.4 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Dallas County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), HOUSTON MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: CLIFTON EARLY CHILDHOOD, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, HOUSTON MIDDLE comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 38.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 13%: 872 students in 2018 compared to 758 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 38% to 30% across the same window.

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