RIPLEY HOUSE MIDDLE CAMPUS

RIPLEY HOUSE MIDDLE CAMPUS is a 6-8 campus of one-room-style scale in HOUSTON, Texas, part of BAKERRIPLEY COMMUNITY SCHOOLS, teacheing 164 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 74% smaller than typical.

Within BAKERRIPLEY COMMUNITY SCHOOLS, which oversees 5 schools and 1,808 students, RIPLEY HOUSE MIDDLE CAMPUS is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, RIPLEY HOUSE MIDDLE CAMPUS shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (95%). The remainder looks like 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, RIPLEY HOUSE MIDDLE CAMPUS has 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 91% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, RIPLEY HOUSE MIDDLE CAMPUS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.0%, the actual is 24.1%, a residual of -9.8 points.

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 RIPLEY HOUSE MIDDLE CAMPUS is one.

The closest other public school is RIPLEY HOUSE CHARTER SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around RIPLEY HOUSE MIDDLE CAMPUS. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), RIPLEY HOUSE MIDDLE CAMPUS ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 52.4%.

The school occupies a downtown site. As a public charter, RIPLEY HOUSE MIDDLE CAMPUS runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RIPLEY HOUSE MIDDLE CAMPUS has stayed largely flat, going from 161 students in 2018 to 164 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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