PALMER MIDDLE

PALMER MIDDLE, a tight-knit 6-8 campus in PALMER, Texas, one of the schools within PALMER ISD, educates 423 students, covering grades 5 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so PALMER MIDDLE sits 34% below that benchmark.

PALMER MIDDLE is one of 4 schools operated by PALMER ISD, a district that hosts 1,352 students overall.

In terms of who attends, PALMER MIDDLE shows that the largest single group is White at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 46% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Ellis County as a whole is about 60% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. An estimated 54% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PALMER MIDDLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 50.4%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Ellis County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $99,595 per year, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. PALMER MIDDLE is one of 83 public schools in Ellis County (combined enrollment of about 46,344 students).

Nearest neighbor: PALMER EL, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around PALMER MIDDLE. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PALMER MIDDLE ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 50.3%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PALMER MIDDLE has ticked up 8%, going from 391 students in 2018 to 423 in 2025.

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