MARSHALL MIDDLE

MARSHALL MIDDLE is one of the medium-sized intermediate schools in BEAUMONT, Texas, part of BEAUMONT ISD, with 694 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

BEAUMONT ISD runs 26 schools in total, collectively educating 16,336 students. MARSHALL MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, MARSHALL MIDDLE records that 55% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 22% Hispanic, 15% White, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Jefferson County as a whole is about 33% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. About 80% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Jefferson County's rate of about 71%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MARSHALL MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.8%, the actual is 33.2%, a residual of -5.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Jefferson County put median household income runs about $60,026, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Jefferson County runs 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,825 students), of which MARSHALL MIDDLE is one.

CURTIS EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MARSHALL MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, MARSHALL MIDDLE comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.3%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 18%: 849 students in 2018 compared to 694 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 27% to 15% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.

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