Summary:
The Greenville Independent School District (Isd) is home to two middle-level schools: Greenville Middle (serving grades 7-8) and Travis Intermediate (serving grades 5-6). Both schools serve a high-poverty population, with over 83% of students qualifying for free or reduced lunch, and the district as a whole ranks in the 9th percentile statewide, indicating significant academic challenges compared to other Texas districts.
While neither school is a high performer, Greenville Middle shows a positive trajectory, improving its state percentile rank from the 6th to the 9th percentile over recent years. It also demonstrates a relative strength in advanced math, with 44.94% of students proficient in Algebra I—much closer to the state average than any other subject. In contrast, Travis Intermediate stands out for administering the STAAR Spanish test, revealing that Spanish-speaking students perform significantly below their English-speaking peers (e.g., 5% vs. 38.51% proficient in 5th Grade Reading). Notably, Travis Intermediate spends $9,139 per student—over $1,200 more than Greenville Middle—yet this higher spending does not translate into better overall performance.
The most alarming finding is a "math crisis" that worsens as students progress. At Travis Intermediate, 5th-grade math proficiency is 23.65%, dropping to 15.43% in 6th grade. By 7th grade at Greenville Middle, proficiency plummets to just 5.86%, compared to the state average of 29.41%. This suggests a fundamental breakdown in math instruction between 6th and 7th grade. However, the Algebra I success at Greenville Middle offers a glimmer of hope, indicating that strategies used for advanced students could potentially be expanded to help the broader student population.
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