MEMORIAL MIDDLE

As a high-enrollment intermediate school in HOUSTON, Texas, MEMORIAL MIDDLE hosts 1,236 students from grades 6 through 8, overseen by SPRING BRANCH ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so MEMORIAL MIDDLE sits 92% above that benchmark.

MEMORIAL MIDDLE is one of 46 schools operated by SPRING BRANCH ISD, a district that serves 33,793 students overall.

On the student-mix side, MEMORIAL MIDDLE reports that 58% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 18% Asian, 18% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

On the income-and-resources front, MEMORIAL MIDDLE shows 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting MEMORIAL MIDDLE higher than the state norm the norm. About 10% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Harris County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MEMORIAL MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.5%, the actual is 83.4%, a residual of +13.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate median household earnings sit near $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), MEMORIAL MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: BENDWOOD SCHOOL, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MEMORIAL MIDDLE ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 65.0%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MEMORIAL MIDDLE has ticked down 8%, going from 1,348 students in 2018 to 1,236 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 12% to 18%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 17.7:1 in 2025.

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