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What's the one class at WILLS POINT MIDDLE every student should take?
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Enrollment
404
Middle
DISTRICT 423 · STATE 643
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WILLS POINT ISD·NCES 484595005232
Wills Point Middle School
101 SCHOOL ST, WILLS POINT, TX 75169 · (903) 873-3617 · Van Zandt County
GRADES 05–06MIDDLE42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL404 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.3:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.5:1 · STATE 14.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
70%
283 students
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 5 | 194 | 48% |
| Grade 6 | 210 | 52% |
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within WILLS POINT ISD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
47.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +36.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
34.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +25.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 34 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 36 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 25 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 20.0% | 27.0% | 23.0% | 30.0% |
| Mathematics | 10.0% | 24.0% | 34.0% | 32.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 47.0% | 34.0% |
| 2024-25 | 44.0% | 33.0% |
| 2023-24 | 39.0% | 29.0% |
| 2022-23 | 34.0% | 32.0% |
| 2021-22 | 28.0% | 18.0% |
| 2020-21 | 11.0% | 9.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
32.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.8%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Wills Point Middle School
Wills Point Middle School's state test result (32.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wills Point Middle School this school | 404 | 70.0% | 32.9% |
| Wills Point Junior High School WILLS POINT | 442 | 72.4% | 28.4% |
| Llano Junior High School LLANO | 423 | 66.2% | 46.3% |
| Caldwell Intermediate School CALDWELL | 439 | 67.7% | 46.5% |
| Leon Taylor Middle School INGLESIDE | 458 | 68.3% | 54.4% |
| Shepherd Middle School SHEPHERD | 448 | 72.5% | 26.4% |
Matched among Texas middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Wills Point Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Van Zandt County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.9% | #1,273 of 1,635 | #5 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 34.0% | #1,220 of 1,670 ▼ 22 | #5 of 6 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #1,194 of 1,670 ▲ 60 | #4 of 6 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +7.5pp | #973 of 1,570 | N/A |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 404 | #1,255 of 1,749 | #3 of 7 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.3:1 | #1,348 of 1,542 | #5 of 6 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.7% | #678 of 1,543 | #2 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 70.0% | #712 of 1,648 | #2 of 6 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +1.8% | #400 of 437 | N/A |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
404
+53 (+15%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 522
Student : Teacher
17.3:1
was 12.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 404 | 23.4 | 17.3:1 | 70% (283) |
| 2023-24 | 412 | 28.1 | 14.7:1 | 67% (275) |
| 2022-23 | 407 | 29.7 | 13.7:1 | 68% (278) |
| 2020-21 | 351 | 28 | 12.5:1 | 61% (215) |
| 2017-18 | 397 | 23.6 | 16.9:1 | 65% (258) |
| 2015-16 | 325 | 28 | 11.6:1 | 62% (202) |
| 2010-11 | 395 | 24 | 16.5:1 | 66% (262) |
| 2000-01 | 389 | 23 | 16.9:1 | 43% (169) |
| 1990-91 | 522 | 31 | 16.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wills Point Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students up 2% (397 to 404); teachers down 1% (23.6 to 23.4).
About Wills Point Middle School
WILLS POINT, Texas, is home to Wills Point Middle School, a low-enrollment middle school. It reports enrollment of 404 students in grades 5 through 6. The school is 37% below the average for middle schools in Texas.
WILLS POINT ISD is the local district for Wills Point Middle School. It runs 5 schools with 2,893 students.
Federal enrollment data show Wills Point Middle School is 55% White. The next largest groups are 38% Hispanic, 4% Black, and 2% multiracial. The school's White share is 30 points below the 84% share among Van Zandt County residents. A diversity index of 56% means there is a 56% chance two randomly chosen students at Wills Point Middle School are from different groups.
The school lists 23.4 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.3:1. The average for middle schools in Texas is 14.4:1, so this school has more students per teacher. A total of 283 students, or 70%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Van Zandt County is 56%.
Wills Point Middle School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Texas schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 32.9% and a predicted 43.8%.
Census data for Van Zandt County show median household income comes to about $69,475, about 20% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 8%. The county has 29 public schools and about 10,738 students.
Wills Point Junior High School is about 0.2 miles from Wills Point Middle School, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around Wills Point Middle School holds 4 other public schools. Wills Point Middle School comes in 6th of 7 nearby schools on average proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is Rural: Distant, or in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
In 2020-21, Wills Point Middle School enrolled 351 students. By 2024-25, that number had grown to 404. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 12.5:1; by 2024-25 it was 17.3:1.
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Van Zandt County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
62,649
Census ACS
Median income
$69,475
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
20%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
29
10,738 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in WILLS POINT ISD
- Wills Point High SchoolHigh · 812 students
- Earnest O Woods Intermediate SchoolElementary · 618 students
- Wills Point Primary SchoolElementary · 617 students
- Wills Point Junior High SchoolMiddle · 442 students
Other schools in WILLS POINT
- Wills Point High SchoolHigh · 812 students
- Earnest O Woods Intermediate SchoolElementary · 618 students
- Wills Point Primary SchoolElementary · 617 students
- Wills Point Junior High SchoolMiddle · 442 students
Nearby schools
- Wills Point Junior High School0.2 mi · 442
- Wills Point Primary School0.3 mi · 617
- Earnest O Woods Intermediate School0.4 mi · 618
- Wills Point High School0.8 mi · 812
- Edgewood Elementary School8.3 mi · 243
- Edgewood Intermediate School8.3 mi · 257
Frequently asked questions
About Wills Point Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Wills Point Middle School?
Wills Point Middle School enrolls approximately 404 students in grades 05-06.
What age range does Wills Point Middle School serve?
Wills Point Middle School serves students from grade 05 through grade 06.
How many teachers does Wills Point Middle School have?
Wills Point Middle School employs 23 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Wills Point Middle School?
Student demographics at Wills Point Middle School are roughly 55% White, 38% Hispanic, 4% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Wills Point Middle School public or private?
Wills Point Middle School is a public K-12 school, overseen by WILLS POINT ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.