BOWIE MIDDLE

BOWIE MIDDLE, a mid-tier middle school in AMARILLO, Texas, one of the schools within AMARILLO ISD, teaches 721 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

Within AMARILLO ISD, which oversees 55 schools and 29,321 students, BOWIE MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, BOWIE MIDDLE logs that nearly all students (83%) are Hispanic. The remainder looks like 12% White, 3% Black. By comparison, Potter County as a whole is about 39% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, BOWIE MIDDLE has 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Potter County (around 74%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BOWIE MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.4%; this one delivers 47.1%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Potter County) shows that median household income runs about $53,249, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Potter County runs 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,501 students), of which BOWIE MIDDLE is one.

Nearest neighbor: BOWIE 6TH GRADE CAMPUS, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BOWIE MIDDLE. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BOWIE MIDDLE ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 44.1%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 9%: 794 students in 2018 compared to 721 in 2025.

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