Sabine Middle, Gladewater TX - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Sabine Middle

Sabine Middle serves grades six through eight in Gladewater, a small East Texas city known for its antique shops and lakefront parks. The school enrolls students from a student population that is largely white, with a substantial share from Hispanic backgrounds, and about half the enrollment qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, reflecting a community with mixed economic circumstances.

On state testing, Sabine Middle shows uneven performance across subjects. In English Language Arts, the school is stronger, with seventh-graders meeting proficiency at about the halfway mark and eighth-graders performing noticeably better. Reading and writing are areas of relative strength. Mathematics proficiency is lower, dropping from seventh to eighth grade, suggesting students encounter growing difficulty with algebraic thinking and advanced computation as they progress. In the tested eighth-grade subjects, science proficiency sits below mathematics, and social studies performance is the weakest of the measured subjects, with less than a third of eighth-graders meeting the standard. Overall, when proficiency results are averaged across all subjects and grades tested, Sabine Middle sits above the midpoint for other Gregg County school districts, a position worth noting given the statewide assessment environment.

The school shows a ceiling effect in advanced achievement. While roughly half of all students score at the "approaches" level—meaning they have some grasp of material—only about one in five reaches the "meets" level across subjects, and students reaching "masters" level are sparse. This pattern appears sharpest in math and science, where only a small fraction of the cohort reaches top performance bands.

Gladewater itself is stable and modest in character. The town's downtown is a walkable district of antique shops, restaurants, and civic gathering spots, but school campuses sit on separate sites away from the commercial core. Housing costs in the area are moderate; mortgage costs remain manageable relative to local incomes, and rental affordability is reasonable. The town's economy has diversified away from its oil-boom roots toward retail, services, manufacturing, and education. Lake Gladewater and its parks provide outdoor recreation. Growth has been slow and incremental, with new single-family subdivisions and no major development pressure.

A parent considering Sabine Middle should understand that the school sits in a stable, moderately resourced community and delivers uneven results across subjects, with reading as a stronger area and math and science as areas needing improvement. The campus serves a majority-white, economically mixed population. State test data is the most recent available metric; information on class offerings, extracurricular breadth, special services, or disciplinary patterns was not provided in the available record, so a parent may want to look into those details directly with the school or district.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 740%

School 40% · District 40%

▲ 13 pts above state median

Grade 834%

School 34% · District 34%

▼ 8 pts below state median

English language arts

Grade 750%

School 50% · District 50%

▲ 1 pts above state median

Grade 859%

School 59% · District 59%

▲ 4 pts above state median · ▼ 7 pts below county median

Science

Grade 839%

School 39% · District 39%

▼ 3 pts below state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

Social studies

Grade 828%

School 28% · District 28%

▲ 4 pts above state median · ▼ 2 pts below county median

This schoolSABINE 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.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 6Lower-income40%Higher-income68%28 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income42%Higher-income57%15 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income56%Higher-income62%6 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 6Lower-income17%Higher-income41%24 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income30%Higher-income49%19 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income30%Higher-income39%9 pp gap