TOM BEAN MIDDLE

TOM BEAN MIDDLE operates as a micro-enrollment middle-grades school in TOM BEAN, Texas, one of the schools within TOM BEAN ISD. Current enrollment sits at 170 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 74% below typical.

TOM BEAN ISD runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 741 students. TOM BEAN MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, TOM BEAN MIDDLE records that the largest single group is White, at 75% of enrollment. Other groups include 22% Hispanic. Compared to Grayson County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, TOM BEAN MIDDLE shows 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. An estimated 38% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Grayson County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, TOM BEAN MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.2%, the actual is 44.5%, a residual of -12.7 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Grayson County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $72,182 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Grayson County runs 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,915 students), of which TOM BEAN MIDDLE is one.

TOM BEAN H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), TOM BEAN MIDDLE ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 56.2%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Looking at the recent track record. TOM BEAN MIDDLE's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 171 (now 170). The White share of enrollment declined from 90% to 75% over that span.

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