ITASCA MIDDLE

ITASCA MIDDLE is a junior high of one-room-style scale in ITASCA, Texas, run under ITASCA ISD, hosting 151 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 77% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

ITASCA ISD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 638 students; ITASCA MIDDLE is among them.

On the student-mix side, ITASCA MIDDLE records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 62% of enrollment. Other groups include 35% White. By comparison, Hill County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting ITASCA MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 66% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, ITASCA MIDDLE falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 45.3%; this one comes in at 22.3%, -22.9 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Hill County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $64,591 per year, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Hill County runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,430 students), of which ITASCA MIDDLE is one.

Nearest neighbor: ITASCA EL, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ITASCA MIDDLE comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.8%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 6%: 142 students in 2018 compared to 151 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 46% to 62% over that span.

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