JAMES FANNIN MIDDLE

JAMES FANNIN MIDDLE is a middle school of compact scale in GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas, operated by GRAND PRAIRIE ISD, educateing 516 students in grades 6 through 8.

Within GRAND PRAIRIE ISD, which oversees 40 schools and 27,240 students, JAMES FANNIN MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, JAMES FANNIN MIDDLE lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (91%). Other groups include 5% White, 2% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Roughly 93% of students at JAMES FANNIN MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Dallas County's rate of about 77%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), JAMES FANNIN MIDDLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 25.3%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Dallas County) logs that median household income runs about $76,547, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which JAMES FANNIN MIDDLE is one.

The closest other public school is HECTOR P GARCIA EL, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JAMES FANNIN MIDDLE. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts JAMES FANNIN MIDDLE at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 33.7%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. JAMES FANNIN MIDDLE's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 506 (now 516).

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