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HIRSCHI MIDDLE
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About HIRSCHI MIDDLE
HIRSCHI MIDDLE operates as a tight-knit middle school in WICHITA FALLS, Texas, operated by WICHITA FALLS ISD. Current enrollment sits at 464 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so HIRSCHI MIDDLE sits 28% smaller than that benchmark.
Within WICHITA FALLS ISD, which oversees 25 schools and 16,226 students, HIRSCHI MIDDLE is one campus in the system.
Looking at the student body, HIRSCHI MIDDLE shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 41%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 33% Black, 20% White, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Wichita County as a whole is about 21% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, HIRSCHI MIDDLE records 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Wichita County's rate of about 62%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, HIRSCHI MIDDLE is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 33.4%; HIRSCHI MIDDLE posts 19.3%, -14.1 points below that line.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Wichita County indicate the typical household earns roughly $63,524 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Wichita County runs 53 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,047 students), of which HIRSCHI MIDDLE is one.
Nearest neighbor: HIRSCHI H S, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HIRSCHI MIDDLE. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HIRSCHI MIDDLE ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 33.9%.
HIRSCHI MIDDLE operates from a metropolitan location.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HIRSCHI MIDDLE has ticked down 26%, going from 631 students in 2018 to 464 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 28% to 33% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.
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