LEON TAYLOR MIDDLE

LEON TAYLOR MIDDLE is an intimate middle-grades school in INGLESIDE, Texas, run under INGLESIDE ISD. The school serves 458 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 29% leaner than the state mean of about 643.

Within INGLESIDE ISD, which oversees 4 schools and 2,071 students, LEON TAYLOR MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

On demographics, LEON TAYLOR MIDDLE logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 47% White.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. An estimated 68% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), LEON TAYLOR MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.0%, the actual is 53.3%, a residual of +9.3 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (San Patricio County) shows that median household income runs about $69,704, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across San Patricio County's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,920 students), LEON TAYLOR MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

INGLESIDE H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, LEON TAYLOR MIDDLE comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 44.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

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