Summary:
The Tahoka Independent School District (Isd) is home to a single middle school, Tahoka Middle, which serves grades 6 through 8 with 134 students in a small, rural Texas community where about two-thirds of students are economically disadvantaged.
Tahoka Middle shows a clear strength in reading, consistently outperforming the state average in 7th and 8th grade reading in the most recent school year. However, the school struggles with significant volatility in its overall performance, earning a 3-star rating in 2025-2026 and 2023-2024, but dropping to a 2-star rating in 2024-2025. The most dramatic weakness is in 8th grade non-core subjects; in the 2024-2025 school year, only 10% of 8th graders were proficient in Social Studies and 23.53% in Science, both far below state averages. Mathematics performance is also inconsistent, with 8th grade math showing a sharp decline from 49.21% proficiency to 31.37% between school years, though it rebounded the following year.
Key metrics reveal a student-teacher ratio of 10.9 and a per-student spending of $13,117, which is relatively high for a school of its size. The school's dropout rate of 1.1% is low but nearly three times the district's overall rate of 0.4%, suggesting the middle school years may be a point of disengagement for some students. A notable cohort effect is visible in math: the same group of students who were 48.39% proficient in 6th grade math dropped to just 29.41% proficient as 7th graders, indicating a potential curriculum or instruction challenge at that grade level. Overall, Tahoka Middle offers strong reading instruction but faces clear, targeted challenges in math, science, and social studies that parents should be aware of.
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