SULPHUR SPRINGS MIDDLE

SULPHUR SPRINGS MIDDLE is a reasonably sized 6-8 campus in SULPHUR SPRINGS, Texas, operated by SULPHUR SPRINGS ISD. The school teaches 961 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so SULPHUR SPRINGS MIDDLE sits 49% larger than that benchmark.

SULPHUR SPRINGS MIDDLE is one of 9 schools operated by SULPHUR SPRINGS ISD, a district that instructs 4,236 students overall.

Demographically, SULPHUR SPRINGS MIDDLE reports that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 32% Hispanic, 10% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.2:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SULPHUR SPRINGS MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.3%, the actual is 50.3%, a residual of +4.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Hopkins County put the typical household earns roughly $70,888 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. SULPHUR SPRINGS MIDDLE is one of 18 public schools in Hopkins County (combined enrollment of about 6,733 students).

SULPHUR SPRINGS EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SULPHUR SPRINGS MIDDLE comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 48.6%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 950 students in 2018 compared to 961 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 27% to 32%. Class-load math has rose: from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.

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