NELDA SULLIVAN MIDDLE

As a compact 6-8 campus in PASADENA, Texas, NELDA SULLIVAN MIDDLE hosts 479 students from grades 5 through 6, operated by PASADENA ISD. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 26% leaner than typical.

Within PASADENA ISD, which oversees 67 schools and 46,491 students, NELDA SULLIVAN MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, NELDA SULLIVAN MIDDLE shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (96%). The remainder is composed of 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, NELDA SULLIVAN MIDDLE has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.3:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 91% of students at NELDA SULLIVAN MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Harris County's rate of about 70%.

After controlling for student poverty, NELDA SULLIVAN MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.1%; this one delivers 35.0%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Harris County indicate median household income runs about $74,983, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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), NELDA SULLIVAN MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: QUEENS INT, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, NELDA SULLIVAN MIDDLE comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. NELDA SULLIVAN MIDDLE's enrollment has contracted 25% since 2018, when it stood at 636 (now 479). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.

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