W S PERMENTER MIDDLE

As a small middle-grades school in CEDAR HILL, Texas, W S PERMENTER MIDDLE serves 456 students from grades 6 through 8, overseen by CEDAR HILL ISD. That puts it 29% smaller than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

Across the 12 schools in CEDAR HILL ISD (6,253 students total), W S PERMENTER MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, W S PERMENTER MIDDLE lists that 61% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 34% Hispanic. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. About 78% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, W S PERMENTER MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.9%, the actual is 35.5%, a residual of -4.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, Dallas County reports that median household income runs about $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. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which W S PERMENTER MIDDLE is one.

The closest other public school is CEDAR HILL H S, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts W S PERMENTER MIDDLE at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 46.8%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 44%: 820 students in 2018 compared to 456 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 24% to 34% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

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