Fairmont Junior High School

Size

Fairmont Junior High School is the 2nd largest of Deer Park ISD's 4 middle schools; its 676 students are 5.6% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 3.3 miles away and have a median of 583 students, so Fairmont Junior High School is close to their typical size.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 8 with 255 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 197, against an average of 225 per grade. This year grade 8 has 14% more students than grade 6 (255 against 224). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 57% of enrollment, a lower share than across Deer Park ISD (64.5%). White students are next, at 35.1%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

37.7% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 47.6% across Deer Park ISD and a median of 65.6% for Texas middle schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Fairmont Junior High School has 43.79 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.4 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 676 students would have about 46.9 teachers, so Fairmont Junior High School has 3.1 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas middle schools (14.4).

Location

NCES classifies its location as rural, fringe, which means it is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town. The nearest other middle school is Bondy Intermediate School, 2.1 miles away in Pasadena ISD. There are 16 middle schools within 5 miles and 44 within 10 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.