Carr Middle, Hale Center TX - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Carr Middle

Carr Middle serves students in grades five through eight in Hale Center, a small agricultural town on the Texas high plains where population has declined gradually and homeownership remains common. The school draws its student body from a predominantly Hispanic community; roughly a majority of its students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting a rural economy centered on farming and agriculture-related work. Housing in the area is affordable relative to state and national benchmarks.

On state assessments, Carr Middle's results show uneven performance across subjects and grades. In English language arts, proficiency is broader and more consistent. Sixth-grade students reach proficiency at a notably higher rate than other grades, while fifth and seventh graders perform in the mid-range and eighth graders lower. Performance in math shows an unsettling decline by grade eight, where proficiency drops sharply to a low level despite similar performance in earlier grades. Science presents the softest results: only a small fraction of fifth graders and about a third of eighth graders meet proficiency, and mastery remains very rare. Eighth-grade social studies also shows weak proficiency, with only a small portion of students meeting grade-level standards. A parent may want to look into this further with the school, particularly around what math instruction or support looks like as students progress through the grades, and how science instruction is structured given these results.

The school serves roughly equal numbers of students across its grade span, with somewhat larger classes in grades seven and eight. All tested grades show participation in state assessments; participation rates themselves were not available in the data. The school's overall proficiency index sits above the midpoint among the five districts in Hale County, meaning its average performance across all tested subjects and grades is stronger than some neighboring districts, though it trails at least one. State testing data does not capture attendance, discipline, or graduation outcomes at the middle-school level, so those aspects of school climate and student support remain outside this picture.

Carr Middle is a regular public school with no charter or magnet designation, situated within a small district that operates from the town's modest commercial and civic center. The broader context is a rural community where most families drive their own transportation, schools are not on walkable Main Street but nearby on their own campus, and the economy offers limited diversity beyond agriculture and related services. For a family in Hale Center, this is the comprehensive middle school serving their town.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 540%

School 40% · District 40%

▼ 1 pts below state median

Grade 645%

School 45% · District 45%

▲ 11 pts above state median

Grade 737%

School 37% · District 37%

▲ 10 pts above state median

Grade 812%

School 12% · District 12%

▼ 30 pts below state median

English language arts

Grade 543%

School 43% · District 43%

▼ 11 pts below state median

Grade 650%

School 50% · District 50%

▼ 2 pts below state median

Grade 749%

School 49% · District 49%

even with state median

Grade 840%

School 40% · District 40%

▼ 15 pts below state median

Science

Grade 511%

School 11% · District 11%

▼ 12 pts below state median

Grade 833%

School 33% · District 33%

▼ 9 pts below state median

Social studies

Grade 813%

School 13% · District 13%

▼ 11 pts below state median

This schoolHALE CENTER ISD, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.