NORTHBROOK MIDDLE

Set in HOUSTON, Texas, NORTHBROOK MIDDLE is a modestly sized junior high, part of SPRING BRANCH ISD. It serves 508 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts it 21% smaller than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

SPRING BRANCH ISD comprises 46 schools with combined enrollment of 33,793 students; NORTHBROOK MIDDLE is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, NORTHBROOK MIDDLE lists that 94% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), NORTHBROOK MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.6%, the actual is 35.5%, a residual of +4.0 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Harris County shows the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. NORTHBROOK MIDDLE is one of 1205 public schools in Harris County (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students).

SPRING SHADOWS EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, NORTHBROOK MIDDLE comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 38.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. NORTHBROOK MIDDLE's enrollment has edged down 42% since 2018, when it stood at 879 (now 508). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

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