BOVINA MIDDLE

As a micro-enrollment middle school in BOVINA, Texas, BOVINA MIDDLE educates 96 students from grades 6 through 8, part of BOVINA ISD. That puts it 85% leaner than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 643 students.

BOVINA ISD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 422 students; BOVINA MIDDLE is among them.

Looking at the student body, BOVINA MIDDLE records that 94% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 4% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Parmer County as a whole is about 67% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting BOVINA MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 82% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Parmer County runs at roughly 73%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BOVINA MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.0%, the actual is 31.5%, a residual of -6.5 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Parmer County shows the typical household earns roughly $69,735 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. BOVINA MIDDLE is one of 11 public schools in Parmer County (combined enrollment of about 2,164 students).

BOVINA H S is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BOVINA MIDDLE at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 49.5%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Five-year trend. BOVINA MIDDLE's enrollment has contracted 9% since 2018, when it stood at 106 (now 96). Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 in 2025.

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