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What's the most underrated thing about MANN MIDDLE that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
776
Middle
DISTRICT 753 · STATE 643
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ABILENE ISD·NCES 480744000031
Mann Middle School
2545 MIMOSA DR, ABILENE, TX 79603 · (325) 672-8493 · Taylor County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL776 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.1:1 · STATE 14.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
68%
528 students
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 276 | 36% |
| Grade 7 | 225 | 29% |
| Grade 8 | 275 | 35% |
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
46.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +24.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
32.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +10.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 32 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 24 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 10 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 22.0% | 24.0% | 27.0% | 27.0% |
| Mathematics | 11.0% | 21.0% | 29.0% | 39.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 46.0% | 32.0% |
| 2024-25 | 44.0% | 28.0% |
| 2023-24 | 43.0% | 24.0% |
| 2022-23 | 21.0% | 19.0% |
| 2021-22 | 18.0% | 15.0% |
| 2020-21 | 22.0% | 22.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
30.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.6%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 45% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Mann Middle School
Mann Middle School's state test result (30.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mann Middle School this school | 776 | 68.0% | 30.8% |
| Irons Middle School LUBBOCK | 636 | 69.0% | 28.1% |
| Calhoun Middle School DENTON | 852 | 64.8% | 39.3% |
| Strickland Middle School DENTON | 956 | 65.7% | 35.5% |
| R D McAdams Junior High School DICKINSON | 891 | 70.4% | 39.3% |
| South Belton Middle School BELTON | 667 | 65.4% | 29.0% |
Matched among Texas middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Mann Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Taylor County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.8% | #1,363 of 1,635 | #9 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.0% | #1,271 of 1,670 ▲ 82 | #7 of 9 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.0% | #1,202 of 1,670 ▲ 17 | #8 of 9 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +19.0pp | #308 of 1,570 | #2 of 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 776 | #607 of 1,749 | #2 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.0:1 | #1,125 of 1,542 | #7 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.4% | #486 of 1,543 | #4 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 68.0% | #760 of 1,648 | #3 of 9 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.8% | #543 of 942 | #6 of 6 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
776
-162 (-17%) vs 2020
+14% since 1990-91, when it was 679
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
was 14.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 776 | 48.4 | 16.0:1 | 68% (528) |
| 2023-24 | 759 | 50.2 | 15.1:1 | 74% (563) |
| 2022-23 | 879 | 57.8 | 15.2:1 | 77% (679) |
| 2020-21 | 938 | 63 | 14.9:1 | 73% (686) |
| 2017-18 | 890 | 61.2 | 14.5:1 | 78% (690) |
| 2015-16 | 923 | 59 | 15.6:1 | 71% (655) |
| 2010-11 | 834 | 58 | 14.4:1 | 62% (519) |
| 2000-01 | 558 | 64 | 8.7:1 | 63% (351) |
| 1990-91 | 679 | 54 | 12.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mann Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (890 to 776); teachers down 21% (61.2 to 48.4).
About Mann Middle School
Federal records list Mann Middle School as a middle school in ABILENE, Texas. Total enrollment is 776 students, and the grades served are 6 through 8. Middle schools in Texas have about 643 students on average; enrollment here is 21% higher.
Mann Middle School is run by ABILENE ISD, whose 26 schools enroll 14,536 students.
More than half of the students at Mann Middle School are Hispanic (55%). The rest of enrollment is 26% White, 14% Black, and 4% multiracial. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Taylor County's population at about 25%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Mann Middle School scores 60%.
Based on 48.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, Mann Middle School has a ratio of 16.0:1. Across middle schools in Texas, the average ratio is 14.4:1. Income data for the school show 68% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 53% average for public schools in Taylor County is 15 points.
Mann Middle School scores 13.8 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results: 30.8% actual versus 44.6% predicted. That puts it in the bottom 10% of Texas schools on BeatsExpectations.
Taylor County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $67,139 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 29% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. Public schools in Taylor County number 54, with about 24,159 students.
Mann Middle School's nearest public school is Long Early Learning Center (about 0.3 miles). There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Mann Middle School is 6th on average proficiency.
Mann Middle School is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000, a location NCES labels City: Mid-size.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 17% decline, from 938 to 776. The ratio was 14.9:1 in 2020-21 and 16.0:1 in 2024-25.
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Taylor County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
145,863
Census ACS
Median income
$67,139
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
54
24,159 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ABILENE ISD
- Abilene High SchoolHigh · 1,798 students
- Cooper High SchoolHigh · 1,570 students
- Craig Middle SchoolMiddle · 771 students
- Madison Middle SchoolMiddle · 770 students
- Austin Elementary SchoolElementary · 729 students
- Clack Middle SchoolMiddle · 693 students
Other schools in ABILENE
- Abilene High SchoolHigh · 1,798 students
- Cooper High SchoolHigh · 1,570 students
- Wylie High SchoolHigh · 1,537 students
- Wylie West Junior High SchoolMiddle · 1,038 students
- Texas Leadership of AbileneCombined · 834 students
- Wylie East Elementary SchoolElementary · 776 students
Other Mann Middle schools
4 other US public schools in 4 states are named Mann Middle. Mann Middle School is the 2nd largest of the 5.
- Mann Middle SchoolAMARILLO, TX · 419 students
- MANN MIDDLE SCHOOLBRANDON, FL · 977 students
- Mann MiddleSan Diego, CA · 680 students
- Mann Middle SchoolCOLORADO SPRINGS, CO · 300 students
Nearby schools
- Long Early Learning Center0.3 mi · 692
- Ortiz Elementary School0.6 mi · 523
- Purcell Elementary School1.1 mi · 537
- Stafford Elementary School1.5 mi · 473
- Martinez Elementary School1.6 mi · 371
- Abilene High School1.6 mi · 1,798
Frequently asked questions
About Mann Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Mann Middle School?
Mann Middle School enrolls approximately 776 students in grades 06-08.
Is Mann Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Mann Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Mann Middle School?
Approximately 16.0:1 students per teacher at Mann Middle School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Mann Middle School?
At Mann Middle School, the student body is approximately 26% White, 55% Hispanic, 14% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Mann Middle School public or private?
Mann Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by ABILENE ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.