Summary:
In zip code 76084, there is one middle school, Venus Middle, serving grades 6 through 8 in the Venus Independent School District (Isd), a small, rural community with a high percentage of economically disadvantaged students.
Venus Middle has an enrollment of 506 students and a favorable student-teacher ratio of 12:1, but it faces significant academic challenges. The school has consistently ranked in the bottom 20% of Texas middle schools over the last three years. A standout strength is its Algebra I program: in the 2024-2025 school year, 65.63% of students taking the Algebra I End-of-Course exam were proficient, far exceeding the state average of 47.01%. However, this contrasts sharply with the school's overall math performance, where only 25.64% of 8th graders were proficient in grade-level math that same year. This suggests the school effectively accelerates a select group of students while the majority struggle. The school also shows extreme volatility in test scores, such as 7th-grade math jumping from 8% to 27.71% proficiency in one year, which may reflect small class sizes or curriculum changes.
The most critical weakness is in 8th-grade Social Studies, where only 10.58% of students were proficient in 2025-2026, compared to the state average of 31.69%. This is a stark contrast to 8th-grade Reading proficiency (47.89%), indicating a possible lack of focus on content-area literacy. The school spends $10,273 per student, below the national average, yet maintains a low student-teacher ratio. With 74.7% of students qualifying for free or reduced lunch, the school serves a high-need population. On a positive note, the dropout rate is 0.0%, well below the district rate of 0.6%, showing strong student retention.
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