TEXAS MIDDLE

Located at 2100 COLLEGE DR, in TEXARKANA, Texas, TEXAS MIDDLE is a large middle-grades school that teaches 1,421 students (grades 6 through 8), run under TEXARKANA ISD. Enrollment runs roughly 121% bigger than the state mean of about 643.

Across the 13 schools in TEXARKANA ISD (7,269 students total), TEXAS MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, TEXAS MIDDLE reports that the largest single group is Black at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 26% White, 19% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Bowie County as a whole is about 25% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, TEXAS MIDDLE records 108 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.1:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 80% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Bowie County runs at roughly 68%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, TEXAS MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.1%; this one delivers 36.7%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Bowie County) records that median household income runs about $59,803, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Bowie County's 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,523 students), TEXAS MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

PREMIER H S OF TEXARKANA is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, TEXAS MIDDLE comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 25.8%.

TEXAS MIDDLE operates from an inner-city location.

Trend over the last 7 years. TEXAS MIDDLE's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 1,454 (now 1,421). White enrollment moved from 35% to 26% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

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