MAYPEARL MIDDLE
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 44 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 42 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 26 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About MAYPEARL MIDDLE
MAYPEARL MIDDLE operates as a tight-knit 6-8 campus in MAYPEARL, Texas, part of MAYPEARL ISD. Current enrollment sits at 265 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so MAYPEARL MIDDLE sits 59% smaller than that benchmark.
MAYPEARL MIDDLE is one of 4 schools operated by MAYPEARL ISD, a district that hosts 1,209 students overall.
Looking at the student body, MAYPEARL MIDDLE records that the largest single group is White, at 65% of enrollment; the rest reads as 29% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.
In terms of school funding signals, MAYPEARL MIDDLE shows 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 32% of students at MAYPEARL MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Ellis County (around 51%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), MAYPEARL MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.0%; this one delivers 51.1%.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Ellis County) shows that median household earnings sit near $99,595, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Ellis County runs 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,344 students), of which MAYPEARL MIDDLE is one.
LORENE SMITH KIRKPATRICK EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MAYPEARL MIDDLE comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 38.6%.
MAYPEARL MIDDLE operates from a rural location.
Over the past 7-year window. MAYPEARL MIDDLE's enrollment has declined 33% since 2018, when it stood at 393 (now 265). White enrollment moved from 77% to 65% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 today.
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