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W F GEORGE MIDDLE
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 64 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 71 points since 2020, while math scores are down about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About W F GEORGE MIDDLE
W F GEORGE MIDDLE, a tight-knit intermediate school in IOWA PARK, Texas, run under IOWA PARK CISD, serves 430 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 643 students per school, that is 33% below typical.
IOWA PARK CISD runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,904 students. W F GEORGE MIDDLE is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, W F GEORGE MIDDLE records that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 12% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Wichita County as a whole is about 71% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, W F GEORGE MIDDLE logs 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 40% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Wichita County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, W F GEORGE MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.6%; this one delivers 64.3%.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Wichita County put median household earnings sit near $63,524, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. W F GEORGE MIDDLE is one of 53 public schools in Wichita County (combined enrollment of about 23,047 students).
The closest other public school is BRADFORD EL, roughly 0.7 miles away. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, W F GEORGE MIDDLE comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 50.9%.
W F GEORGE MIDDLE operates from a small-town location.
Looking at the recent track record. W F GEORGE MIDDLE's enrollment has increased 3% since 2018, when it stood at 417 (now 430). Class-load math has fell: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.
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