HUFFMAN MIDDLE

As a middle-of-the-pack middle school in HUFFMAN, Texas, HUFFMAN MIDDLE instructs 889 students from grades 6 through 8, part of HUFFMAN ISD. That puts it 38% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

Within HUFFMAN ISD, which oversees 4 schools and 3,646 students, HUFFMAN MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, HUFFMAN MIDDLE records that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 31% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 34% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Around 39% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, HUFFMAN MIDDLE is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 56.7%; HUFFMAN MIDDLE posts 37.1%, -19.5 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Harris County put 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%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which HUFFMAN MIDDLE is one.

HARGRAVE H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around HUFFMAN MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, HUFFMAN MIDDLE comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Five-year trend. HUFFMAN MIDDLE's enrollment has grew 10% since 2018, when it stood at 809 (now 889). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 72% to 62%.

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