SPRING FOREST MIDDLE

SPRING FOREST MIDDLE is one of the well-populated middle-grades schools in HOUSTON, Texas, part of SPRING BRANCH ISD, with 993 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 54% above typical.

Across the 46 schools in SPRING BRANCH ISD (33,793 students total), SPRING FOREST MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, SPRING FOREST MIDDLE reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 43%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 33% White, 15% Black, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, SPRING FOREST MIDDLE has 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.1:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 52% of students at SPRING FOREST MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Harris County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SPRING FOREST MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.0%, the actual is 49.4%, a residual of -1.7 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Harris County put the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, 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 SPRING FOREST MIDDLE is one.

Nearest neighbor: MEADOW WOOD EL, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SPRING FOREST MIDDLE at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 70.0%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SPRING FOREST MIDDLE has ticked up 11%, going from 897 students in 2018 to 993 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 in 2025.

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