RONALD THORNTON MIDDLE

Set in MISSOURI CITY, Texas, RONALD THORNTON MIDDLE is a substantial middle-grades school, one of the schools within FORT BEND ISD. It instructs 1,760 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts it 174% larger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

FORT BEND ISD runs 83 schools in total, collectively educating 79,663 students. RONALD THORNTON MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, RONALD THORNTON MIDDLE logs that 39% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 25% Hispanic, 21% White, 9% Asian, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.

On the resource side, RONALD THORNTON MIDDLE shows 96 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.3:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 42% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, RONALD THORNTON MIDDLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 55.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 51.9%.

Across the wider county, census data for Fort Bend County shows median household earnings sit near $114,041, 50% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. RONALD THORNTON MIDDLE is one of 217 public schools in Fort Bend County (combined enrollment of about 191,372 students).

The closest other public school is DONALD LEONETTI EL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around RONALD THORNTON MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, RONALD THORNTON MIDDLE comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 57.0%.

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