THEMER MIDDLE

Located at 12502 FM 1641, in FORNEY, Texas, THEMER MIDDLE is a middle-of-the-pack middle-grades school that serves 642 students (grades 7 through 8), part of FORNEY ISD.

FORNEY ISD runs 24 schools in total, collectively educating 18,565 students. THEMER MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

On demographics, THEMER MIDDLE shows that the most-represented group is White (36%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 30% Black, 27% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 54% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school reports having 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Kaufman County's rate of about 59%.

With demographic context factored in, THEMER MIDDLE is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 59.8%; THEMER MIDDLE posts 45.6%, -14.2 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Kaufman County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $89,485 per year, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Kaufman County runs 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,319 students), of which THEMER MIDDLE is one.

Nearest neighbor: HENDERSON EL, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts THEMER MIDDLE at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 55.1%.

THEMER MIDDLE operates from an outlying location.

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