SANTA FE MIDDLE

As a roomy 6-8 campus in CLEVELAND, Texas, SANTA FE MIDDLE hosts 1,117 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within CLEVELAND ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 74% larger than the state mean of about 643.

Within CLEVELAND ISD, which oversees 11 schools and 12,513 students, SANTA FE MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SANTA FE MIDDLE lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (95%). Other groups include 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 40% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, SANTA FE MIDDLE records 69 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.1:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Liberty County runs at roughly 80%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, SANTA FE MIDDLE is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 31.9%; SANTA FE MIDDLE posts 17.4%, -14.5 points below that line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Liberty County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $68,703 per year, about 12% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. SANTA FE MIDDLE is one of 41 public schools in Liberty County (combined enrollment of about 27,599 students).

Nearest neighbor: SANTA FE EL, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SANTA FE MIDDLE ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 18.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

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