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What's the state of after-school transportation at SUGAR LAND MIDDLE?
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Enrollment
936
Middle
DISTRICT 1,216 · STATE 643
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FORT BEND ISD·NCES 481965001827
Sugar Land Middle School
321 SEVENTH ST, SUGAR LAND, TX 77498 · (281) 634-3080 · Fort Bend County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL936 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 50% of Texas public middle schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- BThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public middle schools
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
62 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 14.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
64%
595 students
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 319 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 292 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 325 | 35% |
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 76% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Sugar Land Middle School→Kempner High School
Feeds from
Based on published attendance-zone data from FORT BEND ISD. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
55.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +26.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
45.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +24.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 45 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 26 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 24 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 29.0% | 26.0% | 24.0% | 21.0% |
| Mathematics | 17.0% | 28.0% | 27.0% | 28.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 55.0% | 45.0% |
| 2024-25 | 50.0% | 43.0% |
| 2023-24 | 48.0% | 36.0% |
| 2022-23 | 41.0% | 34.0% |
| 2021-22 | 43.0% | 35.0% |
| 2020-21 | 29.0% | 21.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
43.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.5%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Sugar Land Middle School
Sugar Land Middle School's state test result (43.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sugar Land Middle School this school | 936 | 63.6% | 43.0% |
| Dulles Middle School SUGAR LAND | 1,254 | 55.1% | 57.4% |
| Austin Academy for Excell GARLAND | 951 | 51.3% | 66.0% |
| B G Hudson Middle School SACHSE | 1,099 | 50.0% | 52.6% |
| Jackson Technology Center GARLAND | 1,157 | 71.8% | 52.1% |
| Bowman Middle School PLANO | 859 | 62.2% | 52.6% |
Matched among Texas middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Sugar Land Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Fort Bend County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #786 of 1,635 | #25 of 33 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.0% | #720 of 1,670 ▲ 35 | #23 of 33 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #793 of 1,670 ▲ 153 | #27 of 33 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +12.5pp | #640 of 1,570 | #8 of 32 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 936 | #355 of 1,749 | #25 of 33 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.2:1 | #896 of 1,542 | #8 of 33 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.0% | #90 of 1,543 | #15 of 33 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 63.6% | #863 of 1,648 | #9 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.7% | #235 of 942 | #2 of 12 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
936
-213 (-19%) vs 2020
-27% since 1990-91, when it was 1,277
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
was 16.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 936 | 61.7 | 15.2:1 | 64% (595) |
| 2023-24 | 995 | 59.5 | 16.7:1 | 65% (642) |
| 2022-23 | 1,050 | 60.9 | 17.3:1 | 65% (682) |
| 2020-21 | 1,149 | 68 | 16.9:1 | 54% (619) |
| 2017-18 | 1,243 | 69 | 18.0:1 | 45% (556) |
| 2015-16 | 1,263 | 69 | 18.3:1 | 41% (515) |
| 2010-11 | 1,397 | 75 | 18.6:1 | 41% (570) |
| 2000-01 | 1,518 | 82 | 18.5:1 | 16% (236) |
| 1990-91 | 1,277 | 55 | 23.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sugar Land Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 25% (1,243 to 936); teachers down 11% (69 to 61.7).
About Sugar Land Middle School
Sugar Land Middle School is a medium-sized middle school in SUGAR LAND, Texas, (ZIP code 77498). A total of 936 students attend the school, which covers grades 6 through 8. The average for middle schools in Texas is about 643 students, so this school is 46% above average.
FORT BEND ISD, which runs Sugar Land Middle School, has 83 schools and 79,663 students.
Hispanic students form the largest group at Sugar Land Middle School, 40% of enrollment. Next come 28% Asian, 13% White, 13% Black, and 5% multiracial. That compares with about 25% Hispanic among all Fort Bend County residents. By the diversity index, Sugar Land Middle School comes in at 72%.
Federal data list 61.7 full-time-equivalent teachers at Sugar Land Middle School in 2024-25, for a ratio of 15.2:1. Among middle schools in Texas, the typical ratio is 14.4:1. The lunch program counts 64% of students at Sugar Land Middle School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Public schools in Fort Bend County average 42%.
The allk12 Grade for Sugar Land Middle School is B-. Compared with Texas public middle schools, the school scored higher than 50% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Sugar Land Middle School is 3.5 points below its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (43.0% versus 46.5%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Texas.
Fort Bend County has these Census figures: median household income is about $114,041, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 50% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 7%. The public schools of Fort Bend County number 217 and enroll about 191,372.
Sugar Mill Elementary School is the public school closest to Sugar Land Middle School, about 0.3 miles away. Sugar Land Middle School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Sugar Land Middle School's average proficiency of 43.0% compares with 52.1% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Locale: City: Mid-size. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Sugar Land Middle School went from 1,149 students to 936. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 16.9:1 to 15.2:1.
Questions about science fairs, picture day, and bus routes can be posted here. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Fort Bend County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
893,767
Census ACS
Median income
$114,041
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
50%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
217
191,372 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in FORT BEND ISD
- William B Travis High SchoolHigh · 3,114 students
- Lawrence E Elkins High SchoolHigh · 2,848 students
- Ridge Point High SchoolHigh · 2,816 students
- Stephen F Austin High SchoolHigh · 2,655 students
- Clements High SchoolHigh · 2,641 students
- George Bush High SchoolHigh · 2,428 students
Other schools in SUGAR LAND
- Stephen F Austin High SchoolHigh · 2,655 students
- Clements High SchoolHigh · 2,641 students
- Dulles High SchoolHigh · 2,165 students
- Kempner High SchoolHigh · 1,850 students
- Fort Settlement Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,504 students
- Harmony School of Excellence - Sugar LandElementary · 1,471 students
Nearby schools
- Sugar Mill Elementary School0.3 mi · 577
- Lakeview Elementary School0.4 mi · 340
- M R Wood Center for Learning0.6 mi · 134
- Harmony School of Excellence - Sugar Land1.1 mi · 1,471
- Kempner High School1.4 mi · 1,850
- Rita Drabek Elementary School1.7 mi · 591
Frequently asked questions
About Sugar Land Middle SchoolHow large is Sugar Land Middle School?
Sugar Land Middle School enrolls approximately 936 students in grades 06-08.
Is Sugar Land Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Sugar Land Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Sugar Land Middle School?
Approximately 15.2:1 students per teacher at Sugar Land Middle School.
What is the student diversity at Sugar Land Middle School?
Student demographics at Sugar Land Middle School are roughly 13% White, 40% Hispanic, 13% Black, 28% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Sugar Land Middle School public or private?
Sugar Land Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by FORT BEND ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.