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Enrollment
750
Middle
DISTRICT 695 · STATE 643
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BAY CITY ISD·NCES 480963000413
Bay City Junior High School
3010 CAREY SMITH BLVD, BAY CITY, TX 77414 · (979) 401-1600 · Matagorda County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL750 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 26% of Texas public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public middle schools
Student : Teacher
19.7:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.7:1 · STATE 14.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
60%
448 students
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 244 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 258 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 248 | 33% |
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Bay City Junior High School→Bay City High School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within BAY CITY ISD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
44.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +21.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
34.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +6.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 34 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 21 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 6 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 19.0% | 25.0% | 24.0% | 32.0% |
| Mathematics | 13.0% | 21.0% | 25.0% | 41.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 44.0% | 34.0% |
| 2024-25 | 48.0% | 36.0% |
| 2023-24 | 47.0% | 36.0% |
| 2022-23 | 36.0% | 32.0% |
| 2021-22 | 27.0% | 27.0% |
| 2020-21 | 23.0% | 28.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
38.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.2%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Bay City Junior High School
Bay City Junior High School's state test result (38.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bay City Junior High School this school | 750 | 59.7% | 38.7% |
| Richardson Middle School EL PASO | 758 | 60.4% | 42.5% |
| Vale Middle School SAN ANTONIO | 846 | 59.0% | 34.6% |
| Jordan Middle School SAN ANTONIO | 948 | 61.0% | 40.5% |
| Jarrell Middle School JARRELL | 899 | 62.8% | 29.0% |
| Clute Intermediate School CLUTE | 1,002 | 57.8% | 37.5% |
Matched among Texas middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Bay City Junior High School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Texas |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.7% | #1,003 of 1,635 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 34.0% | #1,182 of 1,670 ▼ 151 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.0% | #1,307 of 1,670 ▼ 287 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +5.0pp | #1,089 of 1,570 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 750 | #663 of 1,749 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.7:1 | #1,507 of 1,542 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.1% | #892 of 1,543 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 59.7% | #951 of 1,648 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.4% | #924 of 942 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
750
-102 (-12%) vs 2020
+30% since 1990-91, when it was 576
Student : Teacher
19.7:1
was 14.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 750 | 38.1 | 19.7:1 | 60% (448) |
| 2023-24 | 770 | 47.1 | 16.4:1 | 74% (572) |
| 2022-23 | 789 | 54.2 | 14.6:1 | 77% (609) |
| 2020-21 | 852 | 58 | 14.7:1 | 80% (683) |
| 2017-18 | 753 | 58.1 | 13.0:1 | 76% (572) |
| 2015-16 | 775 | 56 | 13.8:1 | 69% (536) |
| 2010-11 | 848 | 68 | 12.5:1 | 65% (550) |
| 2000-01 | 498 | 34 | 14.7:1 | 62% (310) |
| 1990-91 | 576 | 27 | 21.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bay City Junior High School.
Since 2017-18: students unchanged (753 to 750); teachers down 35% (58.1 to 38.1).
About Bay City Junior High School
Bay City Junior High School runs as a mid-sized middle school in BAY CITY, Texas. Its grade span covers grades 6 through 8, with 750 students on the rolls.
The district, BAY CITY ISD, operates 5 schools serving 3,473 students.
The share of Hispanic students at Bay City Junior High School is 68%, a majority. Other students are 14% White, 14% Black, and 3% multiracial. That is higher than the 44% Hispanic share among all Matagorda County residents. A diversity index of 50% means there is a 50% chance two randomly chosen students at Bay City Junior High School are from different groups.
Bay City Junior High School lists 38.1 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 19.7 students per teacher. By comparison, the average for middle schools in Texas is 14.4:1. About 60% of students at Bay City Junior High School are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Matagorda County is similar, at 63%.
On the allk12 Grade, Bay City Junior High School lands at C, ahead of 26% of Texas public middle schools.
Compared with Texas schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Bay City Junior High School's results are 9.5 points below predicted: 38.7% against 48.2%.
For Matagorda County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $58,628 a year, roughly 22% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 17%. Public schools in Matagorda County number 18, with about 7,199 students.
A public school about 0.5 miles away, Cherry Elementary School, is the closest to Bay City Junior High School. The count of other public schools within five miles is 7. On proficiency, Bay City Junior High School is behind the 50.8% nearby average, ranking 6th of 7.
Locale data from NCES put Bay City Junior High School in a town some distance from an urbanized area (Town: Distant).
From 852 students in 2020-21, enrollment fell to 750 by 2024-25. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio increased to 19.7:1, from 14.7:1.
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Matagorda County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
36,329
Census ACS
Median income
$58,628
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
22%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
17%
Below federal line
Schools in county
18
7,199 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in BAY CITY ISD
- Bay City High SchoolHigh · 1,042 students
- Tenie Holmes Elementary SchoolElementary · 763 students
- Roberts Elementary SchoolElementary · 486 students
- Cherry Elementary SchoolElementary · 432 students
Other schools in BAY CITY
- Bay City High SchoolHigh · 1,042 students
- Tenie Holmes Elementary SchoolElementary · 763 students
- Roberts Elementary SchoolElementary · 486 students
- Cherry Elementary SchoolElementary · 432 students
Nearby schools
- Cherry Elementary School0.5 mi · 432
- Tenie Holmes Elementary School0.7 mi · 763
- Bay City High School2.0 mi · 1,042
- Roberts Elementary School2.3 mi · 486
- Van Vleck Elementary School4.4 mi · 447
- Van Vleck High School4.5 mi · 342
Frequently asked questions
About Bay City Junior High SchoolHow large is Bay City Junior High School?
Bay City Junior High School enrolls approximately 750 students in grades 06-08.
Is Bay City Junior High School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Bay City Junior High School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Bay City Junior High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Bay City Junior High School is approximately 19.7:1 (38 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Bay City Junior High School?
Student demographics at Bay City Junior High School are roughly 14% White, 68% Hispanic, 14% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Bay City Junior High School public or private?
Bay City Junior High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by BAY CITY ISD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.