Middling Schools

Let’s move on to middle schools.

Children at Risk also evaluates middle schools in Texas.  This year they ranked 1,841 middle schools using the following criteria:

  • STAAR Advanced Reading (10%)
  • STAAR Advanced Math (10%)
  • Attendance Rate (15%)
  • Retention Rate, Grade 7 (5%)
  • Retention Rate, Grade 8 (5%)
  • Percent Economically Disadvantaged (25%)
  • Reading Gain/Loss (15%)
  • Math Gain/Loss (15%)

Ranked with our best first, their data shows:

CAMPUS DISTRICT 2013 STATE
RANK
LETTER GRADE
Alicia R Chacon Ysleta ISD 26 A
Bill Sybert School Socorro ISD 114 A
Eastwood Knolls Ysleta ISD 255 B
Hornedo Middle El Paso ISD 306 B
Paso Del Norte School Socorro ISD 320 B
Desert Wind El Socorro ISD 328 B
Socorro Middle Socorro ISD 353 B
Ricardo Estrada J H Clint ISD 365 B
East Montana Middle Clint ISD 369 B
Montwood Middle Socorro ISD 411 B
Fabens Middle School Fabens ISD 414 B
Charles Middle El Paso ISD 423 B
Macarthur El-Int El Paso ISD 450 B
Richardson Middle El Paso ISD 501 B
Anthony Middle Anthony ISD 558 B
Clint J H School Clint ISD 561 B
Wiggs Middle El Paso ISD 576 B
Canyon Hills Middle El Paso ISD 588 B
Harmony Science Acad (El Paso) Harmony Science Acad (El Paso) 612 B
Brown Middle El Paso ISD 649 B
Eastwood Middle Ysleta ISD 656 B
John Drugan School Socorro ISD 670 B
William D Slider Middle Socorro ISD 677 B
Ernesto Serna School Socorro ISD 703 B
Spec Rafael Hernando Middle Socorro ISD 748 B
Lincoln Middle El Paso ISD 771 B
Canutillo Middle Canutillo ISD 774 B
Davinci School For Science And The Burnham Wood Charter School Distri 801 B
Camino Real Ms Ysleta ISD 802 B
Armendariz Middle El Paso ISD 813 B
Rio Bravo Ms Ysleta ISD 850 C
Ross Middle El Paso ISD 929 C
Jose J Alderete Middle Canutillo ISD 956 C
Ysleta Ms Ysleta ISD 969 C
Salvador Sanchez Middle Socorro ISD 997 C
Magoffin Middle El Paso ISD 1,039 C
Jane A Hambric School Socorro ISD 1,049 C
Morehead Middle El Paso ISD 1,060 C
Desert View Ms Ysleta ISD 1,068 C
Guillen Middle El Paso ISD 1,076 C
Terrace Hills Middle El Paso ISD 1,081 C
Col John O Ensor Middle Socorro ISD 1,193 C
Sun Ridge Middle Socorro ISD 1,232 C
Valley View Ms Ysleta ISD 1,286 C
Indian Ridge Ms Ysleta ISD 1,292 C
Hillcrest Ms Ysleta ISD 1,295 C
Tornillo Jh Tornillo ISD 1,311 C
Ranchland Hills Middle Ysleta ISD 1,313 C
Henderson Middle El Paso ISD 1,374 C
Parkland Ms Ysleta ISD 1,381 C
Ann M Garcia-Enriquez Middle Schoo San Elizario ISD 1,401 C
Bassett Middle El Paso ISD 1,442 C
Harmony School Of Innovation – El Harmony Science Acad (El Paso) 1,447 C
Capt Walter E Clarke Middle Socorro ISD 1,470 C
Riverside Ms Ysleta ISD 1,614 C

Any school ranked above 921 is in the bottom half of the state.

Out of 55 schools we only have two that received an “A”.  El Paso Independent School District middle schools averaged 817th place.  Ysleta Independent School District middle schools averaged 985th place.  Socorro Independent School District middle schools averaged 733rd.

One Response to Middling Schools

  1. timholt2007's avatar timholt2007 says:

    Well, this is terribly subjective 50% of the score here is derived from some test or another.

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