MCCAMEY 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 36 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 26 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are down about 4 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 16 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 54% 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.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About MCCAMEY MIDDLE
Located at 200 E 11TH ST, in MCCAMEY, Texas, MCCAMEY MIDDLE is a minimally staffed intermediate school that instructs 143 students (grades 5 through 8), one of the schools within MCCAMEY ISD. That puts it 78% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.
MCCAMEY ISD runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 484 students. MCCAMEY MIDDLE is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, MCCAMEY MIDDLE records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 74%. The remainder comes out to 20% White, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Upton County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the resource side, The school employs 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. The state averages about 14.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 45% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, MCCAMEY MIDDLE sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 54.0%; actual is 24.7%, a gap of -29.3 points.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Upton County) records that median household earnings sit near $49,167, roughly 9% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Upton County runs 4 public schools (combined enrollment of about 785 students), of which MCCAMEY MIDDLE is one.
Nearest neighbor: MCCAMEY PRI, around 0.1 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MCCAMEY MIDDLE comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.4%.
MCCAMEY MIDDLE operates from a small-town location.
Over the past 7-year window. MCCAMEY MIDDLE's enrollment has decreased 12% since 2018, when it stood at 163 (now 143). White enrollment moved from 25% to 20% across the same window.
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