MATTEI MIDDLE

MATTEI MIDDLE is an intermediate school of mid-sized scale in PRINCETON, Texas, run under PRINCETON ISD, hosting 839 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 30% above typical.

PRINCETON ISD runs 14 schools in total, collectively educating 9,956 students. MATTEI MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

On demographics, MATTEI MIDDLE reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 20% White, 17% Black, 7% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Collin County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, MATTEI MIDDLE has 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting MATTEI MIDDLE higher than the state norm the norm. About 69% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Collin County (around 30%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, MATTEI MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.6%; this one delivers 47.0%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Collin County indicate median household income runs about $121,600, 56% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Collin County runs 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students), of which MATTEI MIDDLE is one.

The closest other public school is JAMES EL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MATTEI MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, MATTEI MIDDLE comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 44.8%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

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