TRAVIS MIDDLE

TRAVIS MIDDLE is an intermediate school of average-sized scale in AMARILLO, Texas, one of the schools within AMARILLO ISD, instructing 571 students in grades 6 through 8.

AMARILLO ISD runs 55 schools in total, collectively educating 29,321 students. TRAVIS MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

Demographically, TRAVIS MIDDLE shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 17% Asian, 15% Black, 10% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Potter County as a whole is about 39% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Around 94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Potter County's rate of about 74%.

With demographic context factored in, TRAVIS MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.7%, the actual is 36.4%, a residual of +3.7 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Potter County put the typical household earns roughly $53,249 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Potter County's 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,501 students), TRAVIS MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: TRAVIS 6TH GRADE CAMPUS, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, TRAVIS MIDDLE comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 36.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Looking at the recent track record. TRAVIS MIDDLE's enrollment has fell 17% since 2018, when it stood at 687 (now 571). Class-load math has fell: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

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