Compare Thomas Middle School with Energized For Excellence Academy Inc Middle School

Thomas Middle School earned a State accountability rating of C (70-79) based on three domains: student achievement, school progress and closing the gaps. Scores are scaled from 0 to 100 to align with letter grades. The school scored 57 in student achievement, 79 in school progress and 73 in closing performance gaps. It scored 77 overall in post-secondary readiness, a broad term that refers to student preparedness to undertake multiple pathways after graduation, or specifically, their preparedness for college education.

On the other hand, Energized For Excellence Academy Inc Middle School performed excellent to earn a State accountability rating of A. The school posted 74 in student achievement, 93 in school progress, 86 in closing performance gaps and 91 overall in post-secondary readiness.

A distinction designation acknowledges districts and campuses for outstanding achievement based on the outcomes of several performance indicators. Distinction designations are awarded for achievement in several areas and are based on performance relative to a group of campuses of similar type, size, grade span, and student demographics.

Both schools garnered only five distinction designations or awards for outstanding performance. For Thomas Middle School these are in Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, with 25% student progress and 25% closing performance gaps while Energized For Excellence Academy Inc Middle School secured in Reading/English Language Arts (ELA), Mathematics, post-secondary, with 25% student progress and 25% closing performance gaps.

Based on Racial/Ethnic Groups, the dominant group in Thomas Middle School is African Americans who make up nearly 67.43% of student population, followed by Hispanics (29.31%), Whites or Caucasians (1.34%), Two or More Races (0.96%), Asians (0.57%) and Native Americans (0.19%).

At Energized For Excellence Academy Inc Middle School, Hispanics make up 94.86% of student population, followed by African Americans (3.85%), Asians (0.71%), Whites or Caucasians (0.43%) and Native Americans (0.14%). There is no Two or More Races student in the school.

Based on household incomes, the Thomas Middle School’s economically disadvantaged students is lower at 95.79% compared to 98.43% at Energized For Excellence Academy Inc Middle School.

In terms of Limited English Proficiency (LEP), a term used in the United States that refers to a person who is not fluent in the English Language, mainly because it is not their native language, Thomas Middle School has 87 English Language Learners or ELLS or about 16.67% of student population. Energized For Excellence Academy Inc Middle School has significantly more ELLs at 540 or about 77.03% of student population.

In addition, Thomas Middle School has 15.90% bilingual students, 2.87% are in the gifted and talented program, while 20.69% are in the special education program. This stacks up against Energized For Excellence Academy Inc Middle School with 76.60% bilingual students, 7.85% gifted and talented students and 2.00% students in the special education program.

Thomas Middle School's 32 teachers have been working at the campus for an average of 4.7 years with individual teaching experience averaging 8.9 years. Teachers at Energized For Excellence Academy Inc Middle School, numbering zero teacher, have been serving the school for an average of years with individual teaching experience averaging years.

Of its teaching staff, Thomas Middle School no teacher serving the school for over 30 years, has four teachers serving the school for 20-30 years, eight teachers have worked for 11-20 years, six teachers have worked for 6-10 years, while 14 teachers have been serving the school for over 1-5 years, including one beginning teacher only. Energized For Excellence Academy Inc Middle School no teacher serving the school for over 30 years, no teacher serving the school for 20-30 years, no teacher serving the school for 11-20 years, school has no teacher serving 6-10 years, no teacher serving the school for 1-5 years, and school has no beginning teacher.

Thomas Middle School has three special education teachers assisted by 7 teacher aides or paraprofessionals. Energized For Excellence Academy Inc Middle School has zero special education teachers and 0 teacher aides or paraprofessionals.