Summary:
In zip code 77707, there is only one middle school, Vincent Middle, which serves grades 6 through 8 in Beaumont, Texas, and is part of the Beaumont Independent School District (Isd), a district facing significant challenges statewide.
Vincent Middle has a total enrollment of 637 students, with a very high economic disadvantage rate of 81.95% of students eligible for free or reduced lunch. The school has consistently ranked in the bottom 3-7% of all Texas middle schools over the last three years, indicating severe academic distress. However, there is a stark contrast in math performance: while 0% of 7th graders were proficient in the 7th-grade STAAR Math exam in the 2025-2026 school year, 68% of students taking the Algebra I End-of-Course exam were proficient, significantly outperforming both the district (34.48%) and the state (54.03%). This suggests a two-tiered math system where advanced students excel while the majority struggle. Reading proficiency is consistently low across all grades, hovering between 19% and 30%, roughly half the state average. Social Studies is a major weakness, with only 7.14% of 8th graders proficient in the 2025-2026 school year.
The school spends $9,254 per student, a moderate amount that does not appear to translate into effective instruction given the low academic outcomes. The dropout rate is 1.4%, lower than the district's 4.2%. While the school's ranking percentile has improved slightly over three years, moving from the 3rd percentile to the 7th percentile, it remains in the bottom 10% of the state. Key proficiency gaps compared to the state include a 29.86% gap in 6th grade reading, a 35.19% gap in 8th grade math, and a 24.55% gap in 8th grade social studies. The Algebra I success is a notable positive outlier, but the overall picture is one of a school facing critical challenges in core academic areas.
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