MCDOWELL MIDDLE

MCDOWELL MIDDLE is one of the cozy 6-8 campuss in HONDO, Texas, run under HONDO ISD, with 403 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 37% leaner than the state mean of about 643.

Within HONDO ISD, which oversees 4 schools and 1,727 students, MCDOWELL MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, MCDOWELL MIDDLE shows that 63% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 34% White. By comparison, Medina County as a whole is about 52% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting MCDOWELL MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 67% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Medina County (around 57%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MCDOWELL MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.5%; this one delivers 38.1%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Medina County) logs that median household income runs about $78,074, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Medina County runs 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,127 students), of which MCDOWELL MIDDLE is one.

The closest other public school is MEYER EL, roughly 0.1 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MCDOWELL MIDDLE comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 52.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Trend over the last 7 years. MCDOWELL MIDDLE's enrollment has edged down 6% since 2018, when it stood at 429 (now 403). Hispanic enrollment moved from 76% to 63% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

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