STEVENSON MIDDLE

As a roomy 6-8 campus in HOUSTON, Texas, STEVENSON MIDDLE serves 1,096 students from grades 6 through 8, operated by HOUSTON ISD. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so STEVENSON MIDDLE sits 70% bigger than that benchmark.

Within HOUSTON ISD, which oversees 273 schools and 176,727 students, STEVENSON MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, STEVENSON MIDDLE logs that 90% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 5% Black, 4% Asian. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, STEVENSON MIDDLE has 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting STEVENSON MIDDLE higher than the state norm the norm. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, STEVENSON MIDDLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 46.3%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Harris County put the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), STEVENSON MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

SOUTH HOUSTON EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around STEVENSON MIDDLE. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), STEVENSON MIDDLE ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 37.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 21%: 1,396 students in 2018 compared to 1,096 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 in 2025.

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