W H GASTON MIDDLE

W H GASTON MIDDLE is one of the mid-tier junior highs in DALLAS, Texas, operated by DALLAS ISD, with 757 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

DALLAS ISD comprises 240 schools with combined enrollment of 140,630 students; W H GASTON MIDDLE is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, W H GASTON MIDDLE shows that nearly all students (83%) are Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 12% Black, 3% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

On the resource side, The school lists 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.4:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 95% 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 above Dallas County's rate of about 77%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, W H GASTON MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.5%, the actual is 36.9%, a residual of +4.4 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Dallas County) shows that median household earnings sit near $76,547, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), W H GASTON MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

REINHARDT EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around W H GASTON MIDDLE. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), W H GASTON MIDDLE ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 41.5%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 23%: 979 students in 2018 compared to 757 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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