MANCE PARK MIDDLE

MANCE PARK MIDDLE operates as a large middle-grades school in HUNTSVILLE, Texas, run under HUNTSVILLE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 1,298 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 102% above typical.

Across the 11 schools in HUNTSVILLE ISD (12,092 students total), MANCE PARK MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MANCE PARK MIDDLE lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 33% White, 24% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Walker County as a whole is about 22% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.6:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 74% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Walker County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MANCE PARK MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.7%, the actual is 40.2%, a residual of -1.5 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Walker County indicate the typical household earns roughly $52,324 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Walker County's 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,655 students), MANCE PARK MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: SAMUEL HOUSTON EL, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MANCE PARK MIDDLE. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MANCE PARK MIDDLE ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 32.3%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 45%: 895 students in 2018 compared to 1,298 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 34% to 39% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 today.

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