JOHN AND SHAMARION BARBER MIDDLE

Located at 5651 FM 517 E, in DICKINSON, Texas, JOHN AND SHAMARION BARBER MIDDLE is a mid-tier elementary school that instructs 614 students (grades 4 through 5), part of DICKINSON ISD.

Within DICKINSON ISD, which oversees 19 schools and 12,554 students, JOHN AND SHAMARION BARBER MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

On demographics, JOHN AND SHAMARION BARBER MIDDLE lists that 58% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 30% White, 8% Black, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 26% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting JOHN AND SHAMARION BARBER MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. About 75% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Galveston County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, JOHN AND SHAMARION BARBER MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.2%, the actual is 34.6%, a residual of -6.5 points.

In the surrounding community, Galveston County reports that the typical household earns roughly $86,105 per year, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Galveston County's 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,767 students), JOHN AND SHAMARION BARBER MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is DICKINSON H S, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JOHN AND SHAMARION BARBER MIDDLE. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JOHN AND SHAMARION BARBER MIDDLE ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 45.2%.

JOHN AND SHAMARION BARBER MIDDLE operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JOHN AND SHAMARION BARBER MIDDLE has shrank 5%, going from 645 students in 2018 to 614 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 51% to 58%.

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