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BOERNE MIDDLE SOUTH
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 64 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 48 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 27 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About BOERNE MIDDLE SOUTH
BOERNE MIDDLE SOUTH operates as a moderately sized junior high in BOERNE, Texas, operated by BOERNE ISD. Current enrollment sits at 909 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so BOERNE MIDDLE SOUTH sits 41% bigger than that benchmark.
BOERNE ISD comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 11,101 students; BOERNE MIDDLE SOUTH is among them.
On demographics, BOERNE MIDDLE SOUTH lists that the largest single group is White at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 38% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.
On the resource side, BOERNE MIDDLE SOUTH records 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Roughly 18% of students at BOERNE MIDDLE SOUTH qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BOERNE MIDDLE SOUTH tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 66.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 71.0%.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Kendall County put median household earnings sit near $114,962, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. BOERNE MIDDLE SOUTH is one of 17 public schools in Kendall County (combined enrollment of about 10,640 students).
KENDALL EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BOERNE MIDDLE SOUTH. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BOERNE MIDDLE SOUTH at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 69.4%.
The school occupies a town-based site.
Over the past 7-year window. BOERNE MIDDLE SOUTH's enrollment has fell 26% since 2018, when it stood at 1,225 (now 909). White enrollment moved from 68% to 51% across the same window.
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