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JAMES R BROOKS MIDDLE
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 45 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 35 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 25 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About JAMES R BROOKS MIDDLE
JAMES R BROOKS MIDDLE operates as a middle-of-the-pack middle-grades school in MIDLAND, Texas, run under GREENWOOD ISD. Current enrollment sits at 843 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so JAMES R BROOKS MIDDLE sits 31% larger than that benchmark.
Across the 4 schools in GREENWOOD ISD (3,373 students total), JAMES R BROOKS MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, JAMES R BROOKS MIDDLE shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 45% White.
Looking at school resources, JAMES R BROOKS MIDDLE records 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.8:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 33% of students at JAMES R BROOKS MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Midland County's rate of about 57%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JAMES R BROOKS MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 59.3%; this one delivers 46.4%.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Midland County) logs that median household income runs about $92,874, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Midland County runs 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,119 students), of which JAMES R BROOKS MIDDLE is one.
GREENWOOD INT is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, JAMES R BROOKS MIDDLE comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 54.3%.
JAMES R BROOKS MIDDLE operates from a small-town location.
Over the past 7-year window. JAMES R BROOKS MIDDLE's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 846 (now 843). Hispanic enrollment moved from 48% to 54% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 today.
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Midland County at a glance
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