MCDONALD MIDDLE

MCDONALD MIDDLE operates as a medium-sized middle school in MESQUITE, Texas, part of MESQUITE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 787 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 22% bigger than the state mean of about 643.

Within MESQUITE ISD, which oversees 51 schools and 37,930 students, MCDONALD MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, MCDONALD MIDDLE lists that 67% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 19% Black, 9% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 41% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.4:1. The state averages about 14.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 82% of students at MCDONALD MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, MCDONALD MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.0%, the actual is 34.9%, a residual of -3.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Dallas County put median household earnings sit near $76,547, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), MCDONALD MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is MCKENZIE EL, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MCDONALD MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, MCDONALD MIDDLE comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 43.0%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 21%: 1,002 students in 2018 compared to 787 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 63% to 67%.

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