SAM JAMISON MIDDLE

SAM JAMISON MIDDLE, an average-sized middle-grades school in PEARLAND, Texas, one of the schools within PEARLAND ISD, instructs 728 students, covering grades 5 through 6.

Across the 24 schools in PEARLAND ISD (20,862 students total), SAM JAMISON MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, SAM JAMISON MIDDLE reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 22% White, 18% Black, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 32%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, SAM JAMISON MIDDLE has 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.8:1. The state averages about 14.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 54% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SAM JAMISON MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.3%, the actual is 50.3%, a residual of -0.1 points.

In the broader community, Brazoria County reports that the typical household earns roughly $97,993 per year, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Brazoria County runs 115 public schools (combined enrollment of about 75,767 students), of which SAM JAMISON MIDDLE is one.

Nearest neighbor: H C CARLESTON EL, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SAM JAMISON MIDDLE comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 60.3%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SAM JAMISON MIDDLE has ticked down 11%, going from 814 students in 2018 to 728 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 41% to 52% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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