SUNRAY MIDDLE
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 28 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 33 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 50% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About SUNRAY MIDDLE
SUNRAY MIDDLE is one of the micro-enrollment intermediate schools in SUNRAY, Texas, operated by SUNRAY COLLEGIATE ISD, with 132 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 79% smaller than typical.
SUNRAY MIDDLE is one of 3 schools operated by SUNRAY COLLEGIATE ISD, a district that teaches 593 students overall.
In terms of who attends, SUNRAY MIDDLE records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 64% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 33% White. That composition is broadly in line with Moore County as a whole.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, SUNRAY MIDDLE has 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting SUNRAY MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. About 55% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Moore County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, SUNRAY MIDDLE sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 50.1%; actual is 34.2%, a gap of -15.9 points.
In the surrounding community, Moore County reports that the typical household earns roughly $61,762 per year, roughly 12% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. Across Moore County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,694 students), SUNRAY MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.
SUNRAY EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around SUNRAY MIDDLE. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SUNRAY MIDDLE ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 45.0%.
Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 13%: 152 students in 2018 compared to 132 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 41% to 33% across the same window.
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