WILLS POINT MIDDLE

WILLS POINT MIDDLE is one of the intimate junior highs in WILLS POINT, Texas, run under WILLS POINT ISD, with 404 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 6. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so WILLS POINT MIDDLE sits 37% leaner than that benchmark.

WILLS POINT ISD comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,893 students; WILLS POINT MIDDLE is among them.

Looking at the student body, WILLS POINT MIDDLE reports that the largest single group is White at 55%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 38% Hispanic, 4% Black, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 84% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Roughly 70% of students at WILLS POINT MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Van Zandt County's rate of about 56%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, WILLS POINT MIDDLE is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 43.3%; WILLS POINT MIDDLE posts 29.0%, -14.3 points below that line.

Across the wider county, Van Zandt County reports that median household income runs about $69,475, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Van Zandt County runs 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,738 students), of which WILLS POINT MIDDLE is one.

The closest other public school is WILLS POINT J H, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, WILLS POINT MIDDLE comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. WILLS POINT MIDDLE's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 397 (now 404). Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 22% to 38%.

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