PINER MIDDLE

PINER MIDDLE, an average-sized junior high in SHERMAN, Texas, one of the schools within SHERMAN ISD, works with 831 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 29% above the state mean of about 643.

SHERMAN ISD comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 7,788 students; PINER MIDDLE is among them.

In terms of who attends, PINER MIDDLE reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 34% White, 11% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 16% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.4:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 68% of students at PINER MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Grayson County (around 53%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, PINER MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.2%, the actual is 39.9%, a residual of -4.3 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Grayson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $72,182 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. PINER MIDDLE is one of 68 public schools in Grayson County (combined enrollment of about 25,915 students).

Nearest neighbor: WASHINGTON EL, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PINER MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, PINER MIDDLE comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 34.1%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 20%: 1,036 students in 2018 compared to 831 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 39% to 34%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.

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