THOMPSON INT

THOMPSON INT is a junior high of moderately sized scale in HOUSTON, Texas, operated by PASADENA ISD, works with 835 students in grades 7 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 30% above the state mean of about 643.

PASADENA ISD comprises 67 schools with combined enrollment of 46,491 students; THOMPSON INT is among them.

On demographics, THOMPSON INT logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 68% of enrollment. Other groups include 15% Black, 9% Asian, 6% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, THOMPSON INT has 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.0:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 66% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), THOMPSON INT performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.2%, the actual is 42.5%, a residual of -2.7 points.

Around the school, Harris County reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which THOMPSON INT is one.

MELILLO MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around THOMPSON INT. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts THOMPSON INT at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 57.9%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. THOMPSON INT's enrollment has edged down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 920 (now 835). Class-load math has fell: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

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