MINEOLA MIDDLE

MINEOLA MIDDLE, a modestly sized junior high in MINEOLA, Texas, overseen by MINEOLA ISD, instructs 388 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 40% leaner than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

MINEOLA ISD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,753 students; MINEOLA MIDDLE is among them.

On demographics, MINEOLA MIDDLE lists that 56% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 33% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

On the resource side, On paper, MINEOLA MIDDLE has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. About 52% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), MINEOLA MIDDLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 57.9%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Wood County) logs that median household earnings sit near $60,300, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Wood County runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,349 students), of which MINEOLA MIDDLE is one.

The closest other public school is MINEOLA INT, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around MINEOLA MIDDLE. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MINEOLA MIDDLE ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 50.8%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 7%: 362 students in 2018 compared to 388 in 2025.

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