SOUTHARD MIDDLE

SOUTHARD MIDDLE operates as a mid-sized 6-8 campus in PRINCETON, Texas, run under PRINCETON ISD. Current enrollment sits at 929 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 44% larger than typical.

Within PRINCETON ISD, which oversees 14 schools and 9,956 students, SOUTHARD MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

Demographically, SOUTHARD MIDDLE lists that 33% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 28% White, 27% Black, 6% multiracial, 6% Asian. By comparison, Collin County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, SOUTHARD MIDDLE has 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.1:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 58% of students at SOUTHARD MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Collin County's rate of about 30%.

With demographic context factored in, SOUTHARD MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.5%; this one delivers 59.6%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Collin County put the typical household earns roughly $121,600 per year, 56% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Collin County runs 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students), of which SOUTHARD MIDDLE is one.

LACY EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SOUTHARD MIDDLE comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 45.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

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