MELILLO MIDDLE

MELILLO MIDDLE is a 6-8 campus of average-sized scale in HOUSTON, Texas, overseen by PASADENA ISD, enrolling 612 students in grades 5 through 6.

MELILLO MIDDLE is one of 67 schools operated by PASADENA ISD, a district that works with 46,491 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MELILLO MIDDLE shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 68% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 15% Black, 9% Asian, 6% White. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting MELILLO MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, MELILLO MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.6%, the actual is 54.7%, a residual of +9.1 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Harris County put median household income runs about $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which MELILLO MIDDLE is one.

The closest other public school is THOMPSON INT, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MELILLO MIDDLE ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 57.0%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 13%: 704 students in 2018 compared to 612 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 63% to 68% across the same window.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the MELILLO MIDDLE community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.