RICKEY C BAILEY MIDDLE

Set in SPRING, Texas, RICKEY C BAILEY MIDDLE is a sprawling 6-8 campus, overseen by SPRING ISD. It teaches 982 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 53% bigger than the state mean of about 643.

RICKEY C BAILEY MIDDLE is one of 42 schools operated by SPRING ISD, a district that works with 33,678 students overall.

Demographically, RICKEY C BAILEY MIDDLE shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 39% Black, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, RICKEY C BAILEY MIDDLE shows 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting RICKEY C BAILEY MIDDLE higher than the state norm the norm. Around 80% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Harris County's rate of about 70%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, RICKEY C BAILEY MIDDLE falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 39.1%; this one comes in at 22.1%, -16.9 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, Harris County reports that median household income runs about $74,983, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which RICKEY C BAILEY MIDDLE is one.

CHET BURCHETT EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around RICKEY C BAILEY MIDDLE. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts RICKEY C BAILEY MIDDLE at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 29.8%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 23%: 1,269 students in 2018 compared to 982 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 9% to 3% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 in 2025.

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